Judy Gautier,
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Our readers should know that your George Richard Gautier wrote an interesting 67-page book that showed his sense of humor. ..I shall never forget "you could not get a dust" in the last line of the following paragraph from his book:
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After the war, George moved to Roseville, Franklin County, Arkansas, he described as: "... a fine country and everything easy to raise; and every old fruit tree was left standing full of fruit, and the country full of wild hogs—no owner to claim them. ..So every man got plenty of meat and started to try and make a crop. ..Corn meal was $2.00 a bushel; flour was $20 a barrel; and unless you had the money, you could not get a dust."
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He recounted the scene of the 1862 Great Hanging in Gainesville; spoke about seeing 1,000 antelope when they first crossed Red River at Colbert's Ferry; described the refugees from Missouri and Arkansas camped all along the Red River, etc. ... Worth reading.
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Gautier, G.R., HARDER THAN DEATH, THE LIFE OF GEORGE R. GAUTIER, AN OLD TEXAN LIVING AT THE CONFEDERATE HOME, Austin, Tx. (1902), 67pp.

GAUTIER, George Richard Gautier (1839 MO-1924) m1-P. Vaughn; m2-E. Courington; pens #44087, #10218; Johnson's 14th Cav, Co A (Co B, Sweet's 15th Cav, CSA)
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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