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Derrick G. Jeter

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A native Texan, Derrick G. Jeter tells stories about the people, places, and past of his own blood's country. He seeks to capture a Texas that once was but is now no more and never will be again. ...more

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	O America! A Manifesto on Liberty 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A 911 for 9/11: Finding Answers to the Evil of September 11, 2001 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Touching Blood it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Our Day of Dependence: A History Lesson from Thanksgiving it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Texas Tales: Marvels of a Changing World

Texas Ranger Sargent J. B. Gillette shakes hands with Herman Lehmann after forty-nine years when they engaged in a running fight. Photograph by N. H. Rose, c. 1924. Courtesy Texas Ranger Museum.

That hideous monster, belching smoke and hissing steam, and with glaring lights bore down upon us at terrific speed, and we ran, scrambling over rocks and through the brush, to get away from it.

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A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction

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“Americans are artisans in freedom.”
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tags: america, freedom, liberty

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“Americans are artisans in freedom.”
― Derrick G. Jeter

tags: america, freedom, liberty

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“It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them.

Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

tags: calling, god, purpose

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