JOHN LEONARD RIDDELL DIARY

Your editor has picked up another book relating to New Orleans mint official John Leonard Riddell, who was discussed in The E-Sylum last year. In 1994, Texas A&M Press published "A Long Ride in Texas," The book is an annotated reprint of "a lively diary Riddell kept" while traveling through Texas in the 1830's.

"Riddell's education was meager because of limited opportunities and having to work on the family farm, which he hated to the point of being characterized as "a very lazy boy", and receiving "frequent floggings."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 3, Number 20, May 14, 2000, Article 5

JOHN LEONARD RIDDELL DIARY

Wayne Homren, Editor