Mary Frances Chupick Bennett

David Allday, Editor, Near Northwest Houston Banner

Review date: 04/24/2008

The book  is enlivened by the letters Rozina writes to her mother and sister back in Zadverice.

The story is a harrowing one, and makes us appreciate what our ancestors endured to give us what we have today, no matter what our ancestry...One of the most interesting things about the book is its descriptions of early Texas place and events.  In particular the siege and Battle of Galveston, and a trip undertaken by wagon to the Mexican border to sell cotton, made me want to retrace their routes and try to imagine things as they were in the mid-19th century Texas.

A look at a group not much has been written about.