Excerpt from Six Decades in Texas; Or Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas in War Time, 1861-63: A Personal Experience in Business, War, and Politics The man who has protested, from the writing of the first page to the last, that he could not write a book, has writ a book; and if there is anything of profit or pleasure in it for the people of Texas, they must attribute it, first, to my devoted wife, and second, to my able editor. The former tolled me along as a woman knows how to toll a man until she got volumes of manuscript from my memory dotted down by my rapid pen; the latter culled it to fill one volume of medium size. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.