UPDATED: (8-8-2003) - Renamed the directory so the links here actually work now.
What if history had taken a slightly different turn... and Texas never became a part of the United States? This series, originally posted to the Usenet newsgroup soc.history.what-if, explores the consequences that result when an atrocity of war, narrowly avoided in our own history, is allowed to take place...
Lone Star Republic Ch. 1 - Remember the Alamo, Again - 1842
Lone Star Republic Ch. 2 - Texan Blood on Texan Soil - 1843
Lone Star Republic Ch. 3 - The Elections of 1844 - 1844
Lone Star Republic Ch. 4 - The War of 1846 - 1845-1847
Lone Star Republic Ch. 5 - The Deseret Purchase - 1848-9
Lone Star Republic Ch. 6 - The Crisis of 1850 - 1850
Lone Star Republic Ch. 7 - 1852, the Year of the Republicans - 1852-3
Lone Star Republic Ch. 8 - Union, Confederacy and California: the Texan Election of 1853 - 1853
Lone Star Republic Ch. 8.5 - Letters from the Fronts, 1853-1854
Lone Star Republic Ch. 9 - The Campaigns of 1854 - 1854
Lone Star Republic Ch. 10 - Two Shall Fall: the Deaths of 1855 - 1855
Lone Star Republic Ch. 11 - The Union's Great Push - 1855
Lone Star Republic Ch. 12 - The Eagle Returns to Washington - 1855-6
Lone Star Republic Ch. 13 - We Fired Our guns and They Just Kept a'Comin' - 1856
Lone Star Republic Ch. 14 - Carving Up a Continent - 1856
Lone Star Republic Ch. 15 - Houston's Legacy - 1857-9
Lone Star Republic Ch. 16 - Troubled Southern Waters - 1861
... the power of technology...
My most current attempt at writing a saleable novel.
Empire of the Lone Star, Prologue
Empire of the Lone Star, Chapter 1
more chapters coming soon as transcribed from notes
The First Flight of the C.S.S. Hunley - an improbable yarn about an alternate history, in which Sam Watkins, our world's author of 'Co. Aytch', recounts his adventure on Horatio Hunley's ingenious idea to save the Confederacy- the world's first airship...
This page last updated August 8, 2003.