WARNER ROBINS, Ga., Nov. 14, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- A sweeping story of history and love unfolds as Xlibris releases Joanna's Lone Star, a touching novel authored by Hubert Philips-Loyd. Read on and discover the fascinating history of the Texas Lone Star Flag and its creator.
Joanna's Lone Star looks at some parts of history that led to the Texan revolt against Santa Ana's Mexican control. The book frames its story in the historic 1866 meeting in Georgia between Joanna Troutman Pope and the grandson of Benjamin Hawkins, an Indian agent of George Washington's working with the Creek Indian Confederation. Joanna is the famed creator of the Texas Lone Star flag, which was given to her friend, Hugh MacLeod, when he sailed to Texas to join the rebellion. The events that followed formed Texas to what is now a historically-relevant state.
Experience the excitement and meaning of the past by ordering a copy of Joanna's Lone Star online at Xlibris.com or at your local bookstore today!
About the Author
Flung across the moist farmlands of the South, skipping like a flat stone over a calm pond, Hubert (Bright Spirit) landed in the cotton mill village of Columbus, Georgia, coming to rest in the family of Clan Singer and knowledge-keeper Richard Alexander Loyd. Singer Richard chose his first grandson, Bright Spirit, to carry the stories and legends of their Southern heritage into the future. Loyd, he was named, His father preferred Phillips. Young Bright Spirit chose Philips-Loyd. His mother was Amanda. Educated in the public schools, his mind was polished by service in the U. S. Navy and, later, the Air Force where he learned his craft as a photo-journalist, writer-editor and historian. Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas, granted him a bachelor's in 1974, followed by a master's in 1977. Editor, teacher and historian, his avocation is entertaining the children of Houston County, Georgia's elementary schools as a story-teller. Also, he is a substitute teacher at Houston County High School. As a novelist, he collects stories of the early European settlements in southern North America and their interactions with the original peoples. Revolutionary Texans and their firm roots in pioneer Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana fire his imagination also. The author is father to five sons and one daughter. With his second wife's grandchildren, there are fifteen grandsons and five granddaughters. Wilma Ollene (d:1992) began the family, Lola is now his wife. The stones skips on.
Joanna's Lone Star * by Hubert Philips-Loyd
Publication Date: October 25, 2007
Trade Paperback; $17.84; 177 pages; 978-1-4257-6536-1
Cloth Hardback; $27.89; 177 pages; 978-1-4257-6597-2
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