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...or Two Hundred Thirty-Seven Years of the Ikards in America by Robert Burton Ikard ©1993, 1996. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the author except that the author grants permission to Ikard/Ikerd family members to print copies of this book for their personal use.

• Title Pages and Introduction
  
• The Ikards Come to America (pages 1-2)
  
• The Move to Texas 1850-52 (pages 3-7) (pages 8-10) (10 was blank and was, therefore, not included)
  
• The Move North to Archer, Wilbarger, Clay & Greer Counties (pages 11-12)
  
• Bob Works for His Uncles Will and Elisha (pages 13-18)
  
• Bob Works for Waggoner (pages 19-28)and pages 29-38)
  
• The Move to New Mexico (pages 39-44)
  
• Work Around Amarillo (pages 45-48)
  
• The Move to Oklahoma for J. D. Shufford (pages 49-50)
  
• The TXT & Flying W Ranch (pages 51-62)
  
• The Move to the Farm 1916 (pages 63-70)
  
• The Move to the Thatcher Ranch 1920-1945 (pages 71-100)
  
• Conclusion (pages 101-104)
  
• Appendix: Letters pages 105-124, pages 125-146, and pages 147-172
• Photos

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FOR A BETTER LIFE

by Mildred Ikard Bourgeois, Ed.D., with illustrations by Ruth Ann Mauney Jackson. ©1995. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the author except that the author grants permission to Ikard family members to print copies of this book for their personal use. The story of the westward journeys of the Ikard family from the Palatinate of Germany in the early 1700s to widely scattered areas of the United States of America late in the 20th Century. (Under Construction)

• Dedication
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
  (Click on thumbnail to enlarge photo.)
• Credits
• Their Name Lives On
• Chapter 1 - To the New World
• Chapter 2 - Pioneers
• Chapter 3 - Secession, Struggle, Strife
• Chapter 4 - Delly's Generation
• Chapter 5 Life on the Plains
• Chapter 6 20th Century Cousins
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Sources
• Map - Palatine Area of Germany
• Map - Settlements of Palatines
• Map - Great Wagon Road
• Map - Peter Eiger's Neighborhood
• Map - Division of Peter's Land
• Map - Anthony's Place in Kentucky
• Map - Anthony's Place in Missouri
• Map - Alto Vicinity
• Map - Shiloh Area
• Map - Vicinity of Decherd
• Map - Division of Elijah Harrison's Land
• Map - Tom Ikard's Farm
• Map - Delly's Train Trip
• Map - Ikards in Oklahoma
• Family Pictures
• Family Pictures
• Family Pictures
• Family Pictures
• Family Pictures
• Letters
• Documents
• Ikard Cemetery
• The last section of the book, Generations, included a list of 379 descendants [of Peter Ikerd (1725-1784)] for 10 generations. That data has been incorporated into the "Family Tree" information.