The Big Ranch Country

Author : J. W. Williams
Publisher : Double Mountain Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Ranch Country written by J. W. Williams and published by Double Mountain Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Double Mountain Books classic reissue, this storybook travelogue covers the big ranches of West and South Texas. Williams made many informal excursions to study their history, founders, and owners, picking up facts, folklore, and range gossip along the way. He documents the fifteen largest ranches in Texas and the ways they adapted to changing conditions in the ranching industry. Photographs and maps illustrate the text. Though it never received wide circulation following its publication in 1954, The Big Ranch Country has been recognized as a standard work by ranch historians. J. W. Williams wrote often in books and newspapers about West Texas, and his work is still cited by authors and scholars.

Author : Jesse Wallace Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Ranch Country written by Jesse Wallace Williams and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292772157
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ella Elgar Bird Dumont written by Ella Elgar Bird Dumont and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crack shot, expert skinner and tanner, seamstress, sculptor, and later writer—a list that only hints at her intelligence and abilities—Ella Elgar Bird Dumont was one of those remarkable women who helped tame the Texas frontier. First married at sixteen to a Texas Ranger, she followed her husband to Comanche Indian country in King County, where they lived in a tepee while participating in the final slaughter of the buffalo. Living off the land until the frontier was opened for ranching, Ella and Tom Bird typified the Old West ideals of self-sufficiency and generosity, with a hesitancy to complain about the hard life in the late 1800s. Yet, in one important way, Ella Dumont was unsuited for life on the frontier. Endowed with an instinctive desire and ability to carve and sculpt, she was largely prevented from pursuing her talents by the responsibilities of marriage and frontier life and later, widowhood with two small children. Even though her second marriage, to Auguste Dumont, made life more comfortable, the realities of her existence still prevented the fulfillment of her artistic longings. Ella Bird Dumont’s memoir is rich with details of the frontier era in Texas, when Indian depredations were still a danger for isolated settlers, where animals ranged close enough to provide dinner and a new pair of gloves, and where sheer existence depended on skill, luck, and the kindness of strangers. The vividness and poignancy of her life, coupled with the wealth of historical material in the editor’s exhaustive notes, make this Texas pioneer’s autobiography a very special book.

Author : A. Ray Stephens
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292762852
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taft Ranch written by A. Ray Stephens and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years the progressive Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, popularly known as the Taft Ranch, led in the development of South Texas, and in the early twentieth century achieved national and international repute for its contributions to agriculture. The story of the ranch reaches its climax as the firm is absorbed into the community growing up around it—the same community the ranch had nurtured to an unprecedented prosperity. In 1961 A. Ray Stephens visited Taft, Texas, and received permission to use the dust-covered records, which for thirty years had been closed to historians. These records, plus the valuable supplementary material in the Fulton Collection at the University of Texas, have enabled the author to tell the complete story of the ranch from its inception in 1880 to its dissolution in 1930. In 1880, with a fifty-year charter, the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company was legally born as a private corporation. For the duration of its history this company aided the advancement of South Texas through effective utilization of the fertile land, through development of agriculture and related industries, and through encouragement of settlers and curious visitors to the Coastal Bend region. Its history is a long, determined fight against severe drought, cattle disease, and financial insolvency. Guided by farsighted men who believed in experimentation in agriculture—and who also promoted the establishment of stores, schools, colleges, churches, and industrial plants—the company not only survived but prospered, and by 1920 its owners could survey their vast properties with well-earned satisfaction. The struggling cattle firm of 1880 had expanded into a multi-interest, profitable corporation that had established and supervised most of the industries in Taft, Texas. Stephens' well-documented 1964 study had been long needed. During the three decades preceding it, the ranch had been well-nigh forgotten; only the handful of people, then still living, who had worked on the ranch had kept its memory fresh, while the voluminous company records remained inaccessible. The author supplemented his study of company records and newspapers with archival material, government records, and information obtained during hours of interviewing. His book will insure for the Taft Ranch its deservedly prominent position in Texas history. The lively introduction was written by Joe B. Frantz (1917–1993) who, in his role of Professor of History at the University of Texas, encouraged the study and watched its development.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collier's Once a Week written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Poultney Bigelow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outing Magazine written by Poultney Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Outing written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book Outing; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2120 pages
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Download or read book The Cattleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 2120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Larry Hodge
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461661692
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backroads of Texas written by Larry Hodge and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition takes you off the major highways to discover the sights, scenes, history, and places that make the Lone Star State unique.