Title: The Yellow Rose of Texas
Subtitle: The Song, The Legend and Emily D. West
Description: The true story of Emily D. west remains mired in dispute and unrecognizable beneath  the manipulative tales that grew up around it.The complete truth may never be recovered, but author Lora-Marie Bernard seeks an honest account honoring the grit and determination that brought a free black woman from the abolitionist riots of Connecticut to the thick of a bloody Texas revolution.
Places: Texas
People: Emily D. West (19th cent)
Time periods: 19th century