The Secret Ledger of an Early Texas Doctor

Egon Richard Tausch

ISBN 10: 1571684611 / ISBN 13: 9781571684615

Published by Eakin Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Ledger of an Early Texas Doctor
• Publisher: Eakin Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571684611
• ISBN 13: 9781571684615
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Why should a respected frontier physician -- one of the few of his trade in Texas -- die in a mutually fatal Western-style shootout with his cousin?

Frontier Texas -- from its War of Independence from Mexico, to the late 1800s -- was a strictly agricultural region raising cotton and then livestock, and dotted with small villages...not much to draw an ambitious physician.  There were, of course, no medical schools in the Republic or the succeeding State.  A very few doctors were born in Texas.  They went East to get their education, and then came back to their beloved homeland.  William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence was one of these doctors.

Lawrence wrote letters almost daily (and kept those he received), so the author could piece together the doctor's life, his virtues and obvious faults, and that of his family, his neighbors and his Texas.

From the Back Cover

Egon Richard Tausch is a practicing attorney in San Antonio. A fifth generation Texan, he has been a rancher, a professional army officer, and a history professor at West Point. He was a decorated combat infantry leader in Vietnam.

Mr. Tausch has had countless articles in publications as varied as The National Review, Chronicles of American Culture, The Handbook of Texas, The Texas Republic, Southern Partisan, and numerous legal, military, and educational periodicals, and is currently working on a book about the Texas Germans.

He is married to Phyllis Keil Tausch of San Antonio and has a grown daughter, Mary Lawrence Tausch.