Historic Ranches Of Texas

Author : Lawrence Clayton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292711891
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Ranches of Texas written by Lawrence Clayton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history and present-day operation of twelve prominent Texas ranches.

Author : Lawrence Clayton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292712393
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Ranches of Texas written by Lawrence Clayton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses 16 working ranches across Texas. Alta Vista, Canales, Catarina, O'Connor and Ray in South Texas; R.A. Brown, Chimney Creek, Goodnight, J. A, Moorhouse, Nail and Renderbrook Spade in the Panhandle; and Northwest Texas; and Hendrson Cove, Hudspeth River, Long X and Hoskins 101 in The Trans-Pecos.

Author : Don Graham
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118039807
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kings of Texas written by Don Graham and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS "Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." -Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove "This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the present-and a first-rate read." -H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American

Author : Lawrence Clayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780292711549
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Ranches of Texas written by Lawrence Clayton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Clayton and J. U. Salvant impart the traditions and spirit of each ranch, including the Four Sixes, Green, Iron Mountain, King, Lambshead, Matador, Pitchfork, Swenson, Waggoner, XIT, Y.O., and Yturria. Clayton writes of the timeless round of tasks that ranchers and cowboys perform today as their forebears did and also describes changes in ranching that have taken place over the years.

Author : Joe Wreford Hipp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oldest Ranch in Texas written by Joe Wreford Hipp and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Eakin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780978915094
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Ranches of the Old West written by Bill O'Neal and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique volume of information and colorful anecdotes about historic ranches, located throughout the American West. In all, almost sixty ranches are profiled, covering twelve states. From the King Ranch in Texas, to the Hash Knife in Arizona, Bill O'Neal tells the history, color and lore of these legendary ranches. O'Neal is a noted Western historian who has written seventeen books and more than 400 articles and book reviews. He has always been captivated by the mystique of the vanished ranching frontier and now he has brought that mystique and lore to life.

Author : J. Evetts Haley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080615005X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado written by J. Evetts Haley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XIT—The XIT Ranch of Texas. It was not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in the eighteen-eighties it became the largest single operation in the cow country of the Old West and covered more than three million acres, all fenced. The state of Texas patented this huge rectangle of land, at the time considered by many to be part of "the great American desert," to the Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Company of Chicago, in exchange for funds to erect the state capitol building in Austin. This "desert" became a legend in the cattle business, and it remains today a memory to thousands who recall the era when mustangs and longhorns grazed beneath the brand of the XIT. The development and operation of this pastoral enterprise and its relation to the history of Texas is the subject of this great and widely discussed book by J. Evetts Haley, now made available to readers every· where. It is the story of a wild prairie, roamed by Indians, buffalo, mustangs, and antelope, that became a country of railroads, oil fields, prosperous farms, and carefully bred herds of cattle. The XIT Ranch of Texas is the epic account of a ranching operation about which many know a little but only a few very much. It is the one volume that, more than any other, portrays the early-day cattle business of the West.

Author : Baldwin G. Burr
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467115495
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Ranches of Northeastern New Mexico written by Baldwin G. Burr and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The counties of Colfax, Mora, Harding, Union, and San Miguel became the location of some of the great Historic ranches of the West. These ranches have been home to several generations of ranching families. They established a tradition of perseverance, self-sufficiency, and sustainable range management that continues to the present day.

Author : Wyman Meinzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896725362
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 6666 written by Wyman Meinzer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defining study of the Four Sixes Ranch with photographs.

Author : Duane M. Leach
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495059
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caesar Kleberg and the King Ranch written by Duane M. Leach and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tribute to a pioneer conservationist, Duane M. Leach celebrates the life of an exceptional ranch manager on a legendary Texas ranch, a visionary for wildlife and modern ranch management, and an extraordinarily dedicated and generous man. Caesar Kleberg went to work on the King Ranch in 1900. For almost thirty years he oversaw the operations of the sprawling Norias division, a vast acreage in South Texas where he came to appreciate the importance of rangeland not only for cattle but also for wildlife. Creating a wildlife management and conservation initiative far ahead of its time, Kleberg established strict hunting rules and a program of enlightened habitat restoration. Because of his efforts and foresight, by his death in 1946 there were more white-tailed deer, wild turkey, bobwhite quail, javelinas, and mourning dove on the King Ranch than in the rest of the state. Kleberg’s legacy lives on at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute in Kingsville, where a research program he helped found has gained recognition far beyond the pastures of Norias.