George Jackson, Sixty Years in Texas, Second Edition 1908,:Wilkinson Printig Co., Dallas, Publisher  A hard to find early edition, almost certainly printed the same year as the rare first edition, of this critical early source for the settlement and growth of Dallas and north Texas.   Jackson was a boy when his family came to Texas to settle land in The Peters Colony area near Dallas, which had only recently been established on the Trinity River.  The land was basically frontier and Jackson describes his family’s life living in the log cabin they built in a land much less hospitable than the Peters Colony agents had promoted in England. The book is not a narrative, but a smorgasbord that includes detailed descriptions of prominent Dallas area residents, much on the Civil War, even a very interesting diary of Jackson’s return to England in 1894.  Interspersed one finds poetry and numerous photos of Jackson and the people he writes about.   Dallas’ surrounding towns, then villages, now part of one of the great urban centers of America, are described. Long recognized as a key source on the settlement of Texas and in particular Dallas and its environs. the condition of this early edition is quite good, certainly for its age.  The text is clean and intact.  The covers show wear and bumps on the edges and probably some fading to the spine but overall is more than presentable.  Of considerable, interest, a Dallasite, Hattie Jackson, has written her name and address in the front and back of the book.  This is almost certainly a relative of the author, as Jackson describes a Hattie Jackson when outlining the extensive Jackson family.  There is no dust jacket, no doubt as it was issued.  A book every person interested in early Dallas and North Texas history should have.