FRANCIS LOUIS GUY SMITH. The Carpenters. Paperback, 176 pages, $6.95. www.booksbyguy.com
Isaac and Martha Carpenter were flooded out for the last time on the Tombigbee River in Mississippi. They loaded their five boys and a girl onto a wagon and made their way to Texas. They were part of the old three-hundred that Stephen F. Austin helped to homestead. Follow this family through the trials and tribulations of a pioneer family.