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Dedication  /  iii

Prologue  / viii

Section I  Immigrants and Settlers: From English Roots to Virginia Roots

            Chapter 1  The Immigrants: Guy Smith and Ralph Bowker  /  2

            Chapter 2  The Virginia Piedmont and Southern Virginia  /  12

            Chapter 3  Southwest Virginia: The Last Virginia Frontier  /  25

Section II  Tennessee: The Two Frontiers

            Chapter 1  Bird and Rhoda in Middle Tennessee  /  41

            Chapter 2  The McClellan Family  /  51

            Chapter 3  Western Tennessee and Bordering States  /  55

            Chapter 4   The McClellans of Madison County, Tennessee  /  63

Section III  Texas: Victory, Defeat and the Last Frontier

            Chapter 1  The Smiths and Their Kin in Texas  /  75

            Chapter 2  The Smith and Allied Families of North Central Texas  /  98

            Chapter 3  The McClellans of Washington County, Texas  /  104

            Chapter 4  The McClellans and Their Kin in the Decade of the Civil War  /  113

            Chapter 5  Reconstruction and Education  /  125

            Chapter 6  West Texas: The Last Frontier  /  132

            Chapter 7  From the Farm to the Urban Frontier  /  149

Afterword: The Unbroken Circle  /  155

Appendix A: Smith Lineage Chart  /  156

Appendix B: Documents  /  157

Appendix C: Bird S. Jones Papers  /  195

Appendix D: Family Group Sheets  /  215