This book is about two journeys across Texas. Both journeys were by covered wagon and horseback. The first took place in 1918--the second in 1998. The author and his double cousin recreate the journey from West Texas to East Texas that their ancestors undertook 80 years earlier. It deals frankly with the difficulties of recreating conditions as they were eighty years earlier and provides a fascinating look at people encountered in the 325 mile ride. The second journey begins with the search for the lost great-grandfathers grave and ends at the final campsite of the original travelers. Daily remarkable spiritual or significant events make the story fast-paced and easy reading. A special connection to eighty-year-old biscuits carried on the original journey is the reason for the title. Without glorifying any person or aspect of the family, it allows the reader to connect with his own memories through the unique experiences of the people in this account. Selected for presentation to the East Texas Historical Association, Delta County Cultural Association, to be reviewed for Texas Books in Review and the Texas Folklore Society. The author has been asked to make nine presentations to date on the book which should result in significant orders. The first edition is two thirds sold out, second edition soon to follow.

Biscuits Across the Brazos

Ainsworth, Jim H.

Season of Harvest Publications

Dreams and a White Horse

Annie Golightly

Ben Tom Lawless and his two younger brothers are left by their parents to live with an uncle. On their first night in his house, they discover their uncle, a professional thief, stealing their most valued possessions. Living life surrounded by family role models that flaunt virtually all of society’s rules, including the law, has deeply affected Ben Tom, but not in a way most would predict. His family’s woeful inadequacies and criminal activities have imbued him with a superior sense of right and wrong. Being the firstborn son has implanted deep within him an almost obsessive need to protect and nurture others, often to the detriment of himself and his family. When his younger brothers march lockstep into the Lawless pit, Ben Tom risks everything to pull them out.

Firstborn Son

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Seventy years of living inspired this wide-ranging and far-reaching collection of stories that shaped the author’s life. Ainsworth’s compelling narratives of encounters with legendary cowboys and roundups on historic Texas ranches complement stories of not-so-famous cowboys and his personal team roping sagas. Tales of true friendships (people and animals), blend with inspiring family experiences and adventures while checking off life’s bucket list. Jim writes about books and reading, the art, craft, and creativity of writing, and the unusual authors, poets, singers, and songwriters he has met. Honored and privileged to write and present Life’s Final Songs for friends and family, Ainsworth delves deeply into his own personal journey to belief and faith in Believing in a Grand Thing.

A River of Stories: It's Been Quite a Ride

Parenting & Relationships

An accident at an isolated railroad crossing leaves Tee Jessup in a coma. He awakens to find that everything he cherished in life has been taken from him and a Catholic priest at his bedside with written instructions left by his parents. Tee resists, but without a home or a job, he is forced to abandon the ranching life he loves and to travel paths he never imagined to recover some of what he has lost. When he fails repeatedly in his new urban world, wife Sarah takes their son and leaves. Tee thinks she has left because of his failures until he discovers the more sinister reason.

Rails to a River: A Long Awakening

They gather around a big table in the back of Prigmore’s General Store and Café in downtown Riverby several times a week most weeks. There are six of them, five men and one woman. There may have been more or less in the past. There are no programs or speakers. Those outside The Circle wonder what they talk about, but they don’t ask. The only requirement for membership is to have been deeply hurt or to have caused serious hurt to others. Tee Jessup is not a member of The Circle, but he qualifies. He spends a lot of time on the porch of a dilapidated farm house on a hill, feeling sorry for himself over the loss of his parents, his brother and his wife. He dreams of taking revenge on the man responsible for his wife’s death, but he can’t take the vengeance he craves because he has a young son. Just down the hill from Tee’s home sits a long-abandoned shack. Decades earlier, it was used as a shelter for itinerant cotton pickers during harvest season. Clayton Dupree stayed in the picker shack when he was a boy. Now he has secretly returned to write his songs, paint his pictures, play his guitar, record everything that happens around him, and nurse a bullet wound.

Circle of Hurt

Believing in a Grand Thing

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

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