The Lawson's Progress biographical essays are being written in chronological order, as arranged below. Since this project is a collective biography, each listed time period includes essays tracing the life of one or more people: Alfred Lawson, George Lawson, Maud Lee & Samuel Cody, William Christmas, Henry Woodhouse, or Vincent Burnelli.

Some readers may prefer to see essays about one of these individuals all grouped together (instead of the mixed chronological arrangement seen below). To see the essay links grouped by individual, click on the names below:

Alfred Lawson    George Lawson    William W. Christmas     The Codys       Henry Woodhouse      Vincent Burnelli

Lawson's Progress

•  Chart - Family of Robert Henry Lawson Sr.

•  Chart - Descendants of Daniel Clark

Preface - To the 1880s

•  The Lawsons: From Bethnal Green

•  William W. Christmas: The Myra Clark Gaines Case

•  The Codys: Advent of the Fancy Shooters

1880s

•  George Lawson: Lives of a Bengal Maniac

•  William W. Christmas: An Education in Woe

•  The Codys: Wild West Adventures

•  Alfred Lawson: Tramping Door-to-Door and Around the World

1890-1891

•  Alfred Lawson: The Yellow Monkey Gets Tutored

•  The Codys: Looking Backwards at the Woman in the Mirror

1892-1994

•  Alfred Lawson: Escaping the Asylums

•  The Codys: The King and the Queen (an ocean apart)

1895-1897

•   The Lawsons: The Gilded Age of Distemper

1898-1900

•  Coming soon

1902-1906

•  Coming soon

1919-1921

•  Alfred Lawson: The World's First Airliner

•  Coming soon

1922-1940s

•  Coming soon

1950s

•  Alfred Lawson: Senate Testimony

1960s

•  Coming soon

Afterword - Past the 1960s

•  Coming soon