Beschreibung:
Douglas V. Meed, great-grandson of Dutch Wurzbach, is a professional writer with two published books on Southwestern history. He is also a former reporter, feature writer, and editor with the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Light. He has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in history from UTEP.
German immigrant Dutch Wurzbach lived the frontier history of Texas from the arrival of his family in Galveston in 1846 through the Council House Treaty, a stint with the Texas Rangers, service in the Confederate army, and another fifty years in the Lone Star State.