In Sicilian Sagas, we follow families rooted in Valledolmo and Alia—villages shaped by centuries of Greek, Arab, and Norman influence—through poverty, faith, and resilience. Their journey carries them from sunlit hills and San Giuseppe festivals to the crowded docks of Palermo and the perilous Atlantic crossing, eventually arriving in New Orleans and San Antonio. These chapters reveal how ordinary Sicilian lives became part of a wider immigrant saga, blending endurance, identity, and cultura ...

Dispatches from the Disputed Texas Territories explores the Texas–Northern Mexico borderlands through compact, document-style vignettes—telegrams, letters, interviews, notices, and field notes. Each piece is grounded in family records and told with careful dramatization to show daily grit, faith, humor, and the long echo of Indigenous and Tejano roots: river crossings, kin networks, settlements near San Antonio, and a frontier always in motion. Episodes stand alone yet connect across time. F ...

In The Allende Chronicles: In Search of de la Garza, we uncover the layered heritage of northern Mexico and early Texas. From the communities of Nuevo León and Coahuila to the missions and settlements that defined the frontier, this saga follows the de la Garza line as it intersects with Indigenous, Spanish, and mestizo histories. The story moves through mission life, land grants, and cultural survival—revealing how family, faith, and resilience shaped identity across borders and generations ...