Description At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure and certainly made a major impact on the early history of Texas.
Still Big Foot Wallace has been acclaimed by historians for its amazing accuracy..
He strove for pictorial and dramatic effects, not historical accuracy.
Writing late in life, Duval set down memories of events that had mellowed with time.
In Big Foot Wallace Duval relates a number of his experiences that had been shared with Wallace.
Like his friend and companion, Big Foot Wallace, Duval was an adventurer whose experiences were varied and exciting.
Civilization did not fit him very well, and he spent much of his time in the wilderness alone.
Duval was a man of the camp and range.
Earlier Texans devoted their time to writing about politics and land, but Duval wrote of the frontier and its people with a clarity of perception equaled by few writers in any period.
Duval, the author of Big Foot Wallace, has been called the first man of letters in Texas.
John C.
Duval\'s Big Foot Wallace.
The flavor and the spirit of early Texas have been captured for countless readers by John C.
Wallace emerges from the book in all his vigor and robustness, and the reader is transported to a rugged, uncultivated frontier where a few men who were rough enough were carving out a new empire.
Duval\'s chronicle of one of Texas\' greatest adventurers is filled with Wallace\'s humor and colorful speech.
Description At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure and certainly made a major impact on the early history of Texas
