Sallie Curry of West Campbell Branch, Texas
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About the Book
In May, 1876, events in this story led to the murder of a pretty fifteen year-old girl known as Sarah Ann (Sallie) Curry. A first page article about the murder was headlined as “A Murder Most Foul, Strange, and Unnatural,” but what did “Strange and Unnatural” mean in the murder of a girl?
About the Author
James Kaye is Author of “The Lavaca River Trench and Lost Cannon,” “The Gonzales to San Felipe Road in Texas, 1827-1828,” “Slaves of the ‘Ole’ Foley Plantation, Lavaca County, Texas,” “The Sons of Washington Green Lee Foley, Lavaca County, Texas,” and “The Daughters and Grandsons of Washington Green Lee ‘Ole’ Foley, Lavaca County, Texas;” all published in “The Journal of South Texas,” and two novels: Louisa of Woods’ Crossing during times of the 1836 Texas Revolution and of Indian warfare, and Berlandier, A French Naturalist on the Texas Frontier best known for his treatise on The Indians of Texas in 1830.