Reading further in yesterday's Missing Links email, I came across this. Fascinating! James Pylant, if you're on this list, thanks much: "BOOK LINKS: DESTINY IN TEXAS Review by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG Everyone has a few interesting ancestors and family skeletons, but James Pylant's family has more than the law should allow. In DESTINY IN TEXAS, he provides documented genealogies, a bit of history, some family secrets, and more than 100 photographs of various characters perched on his family tree. Among the colorful cast are: Julia Rubarth Campbell, mother of 21; the pipe-smoking midwife, Lucinda Hampshire Ladd Hughes; Indian fighter Joe Gurley; Lee Campbell, who hunted with Buffalo Bill; social climber Ada Stewart; and the scandalous Annah Gurley, whose husband, Sheriff Elijah Briant, shot and killed one of Butch Cassidy's cohorts. The book also reveals the bizarre web of fraud, bigamy, insanity, suicide, and murder surrounding Martha Rubarth's ruthless husband, R. W. Callahan, the founder of Sonora, Texas. Some of Pylant's families covered in this outstanding family history -- Hampshire, Lee, Rubarth, Garner, Kahla, Campbell, Pool, Callahan, Greenwood, Gurley and Tayloe [sic] -- lived in the same areas of Virginia, Louisiana, and Texas at about the same time period as many of my own ancestors. I was somewhat relieved to learn they did not intermarry. However, some descendants of the progenitor couple also amassed thousands of acres, founded towns in Texas, and produced judges, newspaper publishers, and ranchers. The book is divided into 20 chapters, each with a biographical history of a couple or individual, then a genealogical summary, and extensive notes and references. The collection of photographs is outstanding and adds greatly to this well-done family history. DESTINY IN TEXAS: DESCENDANTS OF JACOB HAMPSHIRE AND HANNAH LEE OF ST. MARTIN PARISH, LOUISIANA (softbound, 340 pp., illustrated, full-name index), compiled by James Pylant, is available ($35 postage-paid; Texas residents add 8.25% sales tax) from Datatrace Systems, P. O. Box 1587, Stephenville, TX 76401. (254) 965-6979; e-mail: datatrace@htcomp.net Web: http://www.genealogymagazine.com/desintexdeso.html