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The true story of an immigrant boy born in Scotland who sails to North America with his parents when he was a year and a half old to live first in Canada and then New York City. How he came to Texas at twenty-one and with nothing but a wooden box of carpentry tools built a large family and an even larger ranching operation in West Texas. It gives you an inside look at the epic struggle they had with Indians, outlaws, Mexicans, droughts, floods, pestilence and a thousand other things to build this beautiful
It was only after receiving copies of his great-grandparents’ obituaries from an elderly family member that Winston Menzies discovered the need to document his family’s history before it was lost to future generations. It wasn’t until he realized that if he didn’t do it, no one else probably would, that Winston began the information gathering process in earnest. And even then, he never imagined a book like The Spirit of Texas would be the end result.
“I had no idea what I was getting into,” he admitted. “I thought it would be maybe fifteen or twenty pages of interesting facts about the family, but I just kept uncovering more and more information. It ended up taking me four years to write the book. It was a real joy and labor of love. Still I never dreamed The Spirit of Texas would be what it has turned out to be.”