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The Runaway Scrape
Paperback
Series: Lone Star Legacy, Book 5
Biographies GeneralGeneral World History
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 23 2026
Pages: 568
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some ran from war. Others ran straight into history.
In the spring of 1836, Texas burned with fear.
Santa Anna's army marched north, leaving ruin in its wake, and the word spread faster than gunfire: no mercy. As towns emptied overnight, families fled with only what they could carry-faith in God, children in their arms, and the desperate hope that freedom lay just one mile farther down the road.
The Runaway Scrape thrusts readers into the raw terror and unbreakable resolve of those harrowing weeks, when survival depended on speed, sacrifice, and courage few knew they possessed. Based on true firsthand accounts recorded by Dilue Rose Harris in 1900, every scene pulses with authenticity-every cry in the dark, every wagon rut in the mud, every whispered prayer beneath a blackened sky.
While General Sam Houston struggles to hold together a fragile Texian army, civilians race eastward ahead of Santa Anna's advance. Mothers give birth on jolting wagons. Fathers stand guard through freezing nights. Children learn too early the sound of distant cannon. Cholera stalks the camps. Rivers flood. Supplies vanish. And still-they move.
Because stopping means death.
Through smoke-choked roads and rain-soaked camps, strangers become family. Acts of quiet heroism rise from exhaustion and grief. And at the heart of the story stand the women of Texas-resilient, faithful, and fierce-who carried not only their children, but the future of a nation.
This is not polished legend.
This is history in motion-dirty, dangerous, and deeply human.
If you love tense historical fiction, true survival stories, and emotionally powerful narratives where faith is tested at the edge of annihilation, The Runaway Scrape will seize you from the first page and refuse to let go.
Walk the road where Texas was forged in fear, faith, and fire.
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