By Peter Herbert

Canes, Plains, and Wagon Trains: Stories of the Herbert family pioneers who helped build America as they cleared the canes and crossed the plains in their wagon trains. With maps, pedigree charts dating back to the 1500s with Lord Edward Herbert, illustrations, and a wealth of information, this publication provides the family history, origin of the name, immigration to America and briefly to other countries. In America the first Herbert immigrant was Ann, the wife of the man who inaugurated the first church in Salem, Massachusetts in 1629 but the book starts with the tale of a man who left his comfortable life in Wales, just ten years before the American Revolution, to emigrate to the untamed part of western Virginia and live in a log cabin with his family. Despite the dangers and trials of this new world he established a home and helped build a society on the frontier. His descendants spread to other states and helped create Denmark, Tennessee, Greenville, Alabama and Columbus, Texas. Other stories cover pre-Revolutionary War settlers in the 13 colonies whose descendants went on to be amongst the first in Utah, Oregon and Montana. You will discover the extreme struggles the Herbert family endured, from contending with Native American tribes, aiding in the Revolutionary War, choosing sides in the Civil War, and establishing roots in a new land. Read about prominent family members, including the infamous Jack "The Bagman" Herbert who lived from 1924-2004, and the reason that he and his wife went into hiding for a time. 

(161p., Illus, 2025)