Lisa Waller Rogers

Lone Star Journals

1 - Get Along, Little Dogies: The Chisholm Trail Diary of Hallie Lou Wells (May-2010)
2 - The Great Storm: The Hurricane Diary of J. T. King, Galveston, Texas, 1900 (Sep-2010)
3 - Remember the Alamo!: The Runaway Scrape Diary of Belle Wood, Austin's Colony, 1835-1836 (Apr-2013)
My Lone Star Journal: A Writing Companion to the Lone Star Journals (Mar-2001)

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  My Lone Star Journal: A Writing Companion to the Lone Star Journals
  

  • Mar-2001
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  Lone Star Journals
  

  As any social studies or reading teacher will tell you, instilling in middle readers the ardent realization that they have stories of their own to recordâ€"that their day-to-day lives are history, tooâ€"is just as important as getting them to read. T...

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  Get Along, Little Dogies: The Chisholm Trail Diary of Hallie Lou Wells
  

  • May-2010
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  Lone Star Journals - 1
  

  It’s spring of 1878 on the Rockin’ W, and Hallie Lou Wells is as cross as any fourteen-year-old redhead has a right to be. Roundup is over; Hallie’s father will soon drive the cattle to Dodge City -- and only boys are allowed! But in country wh...

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  The Great Storm: The Hurricane Diary of J. T. King, Galveston, Texas, 1900
  

  • Sep-2010
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  Lone Star Journals - 2
  

  More than a century later, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 is still the largest natural disaster in American history. Pounding most of the historic island city to rubble, and claiming perhaps as many as eight thousand lives, the storm stranded Galves...

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  Remember the Alamo!: The Runaway Scrape Diary of Belle Wood, Austin's Colony, 1835-1836
  

  • Apr-2013
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  Lone Star Journals - 3
  

  Late in 1835, the Mexican army surrendered San Antonio and retreated across the Rio Grande. Texas colonists, including young Belle Wood, rejoiced. No one expected more trouble from Mexico. So when Belle’s brother, Mac, followed Colonel Travis to th...

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