Girl on the Bluff

Stone, B. J.

ISBN 10: 1571682805 / ISBN 13: 9781571682802

Published by Eakin Press; (1998), Austin, TX, 1999

About this Item

Stated first edition, fine in a fine dust jacket. Appears to be an unread copy. Inscribed on the title page by the author: "To Anna - You are such an inspiration. Thanks. Betty J. Stone/April 1999". A children's book about growing up in Texas, in the area that was to become Fort Worth.

Seller Inventory # 023767

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Girl on the Bluff
• Publisher: Eakin Press; (1998), Austin, TX
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571682805
• ISBN 13: 9781571682802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Books
  • Texana

About this title

Synopsis

Young Susan Ann Farmer moves to Texas with her parents and as she grows up she witnesses the establishment and growth of the town of Forth Worth

From the Author

I fell in love with my protagonist, Susan Ann Farmer.
As I guided elementary school children on tours of Fort Worth, Texas, I sensed a story reaching out to me. "Write it," it seemed to say. The first stop on our tour was at a church cemetery where the Farmers had a plot. Susan wasn't buried there, but I began my research. At first, I wrote about Jane and Press Farmer, well-known pioneers of Fort Worth. Then, after interviewing a descendant of Jane and Press, I heard about their fleeing Indians and leaving Susan Ann hidden in a hole dug out of the side of a hill, which was the back wall of their sod home.

Even though she was only two-years-old at the time, I crawled into her mind and felt the fear, the cold and the darkness that she endured for one whole night. All the time listening to the marauding Indians, who mischievously burned their new log cabin and pilfered some farm equipment.

When Ma and Pa came back the next morning, they found Susan Ann alive and crying for them. That story was retold to her over the years, as were many more. Susan tells this story as she witnessed the events in Fort Worth's history, and as I have imagined their life-style, their ups and downs, their tears of joy and anger.

I became Susan Ann while writing Girl on the Bluff, and in a sense, she became me.