How Long to Read Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY

How Long Does it Take to Read Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 32 minutes to read Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY by Richard W. Parmer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A true story of two pioneer families: Wittenburg and Parmer that come together as one on July 3, 1964. The two family's history and the history of Texas melt together. William Wittenburg, born in 1825 in Westphalia, Prussia, was born after Napoleon's army conquered most of Germany between 1800 & 1812, seizing the land and dispossessing the landowners. At 23, William boarded a ship for America, after serving the required three years in the Prussian army and three years acquiring a master's license in sheep husbandry. After arriving in Baltimore, MD. his story takes the reader to the great state of Texas where he becomes the state's most respected Sheepman. He eventually acquires 30,000 acres of ranch land while, as a Sheepman, he faces many difficulties; fighting Indians, cattlemen, fence cutters, barns burned, grassland burned, sheep killed by the cattlemen who hated the sheepmen. Martin Van Buren Parmer (Ringtail Panther) born in Charlotte County, Virginia, on June 4, 1778. After moving to Kentucky, in 1798, he settled in Dickson County, Tennessee. About 1816 he moved to Missouri, where in 1820 he was elected to a two-year term in the Missouri General Assembly. He was named as a delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1821. He then served a term in the Missouri State Senate, then was chosen colonel of the Missouri militia and led four military companies against the Indians. He moved to Texas in 1825 settling in Cherokee County where he joined Haden Edwards and fought for Benjamin Edwards in the Fredonian Rebellion. On Nov. 25, 1826 he presided over the court-martial that tried and convicted Samuel Norris and his attorney Jose' Antonio Sepulveda of Nacogdoches. The Mexicans feared Colonel Parmer and Mexican authorities issued an arrest warrant for Parmer. In 1839, Republic of Texas president Mirabeau B. Lamar appointed him Chief Justice Jasper County. Martin Parmer was a smart and tough man, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence,

How long is Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY?

Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY by Richard W. Parmer is 148 pages long, and a total of 38,184 words.

This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 28 minutes to read Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY aloud.

What Reading Level is Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY?

Legacies: How a Shepherd, a Politician and a Miller Made TEXAS HISTORY is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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