Title: Sixty years in the Nueces Valley, 1870 to 1930
Description: This book gives an account of the Miller Ranch and life in what now is Nueces, San Patricio, Jim Wells, and Live Oak Counties in the mid-1800's.  Mrs. Miller gave birth to 13 children and 3 others died at birth.  Mr. Miller operated a ferry which was on the Old Cotton Trail near Lagarto.
Subjects: Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Nueces River Valley (Tex.), Social life and customs, Women pioneers
Places: Nueces River Valley, Nueces River Valley (Tex.), Texas, Mathis TX., Lagarto TX., Dinero TX., Old Cotton Trail and Civil War Smuggling
People: James Potter Collins (1763-1844), S. G. Miller Mrs. (b. 1851)
Time periods: Mid-1800's, Civil War Texas