The Hawkins Ranch in Texas
Furse, Margaret Lewis,
The Hawkins Ranch in Texas from plantation times to the present / [electronic resource] : Margaret Lewis Furse. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; number 121 . - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 121. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Plantation beginnings, 1846 -- North Carolina roots -- Letters written en route -- Starting the Caney sugar plantation -- Ariella and plantation family life -- The case of Edgar and ways of thought in slavery times -- Building the ranch house (lake house), 1854 -- Effects of Civil War and emancipation -- Frank Hawkins and the development of cattle ranching -- Ariella's fight for her rights -- Young lady ranchers -- A birth, a death, and the move to town, 1896 -- Schooling and a house of their own, 1913 -- Young lady ranchers in charge, 1917 -- Courtship and marriage -- Lizzie -- The conversations in the family, 1935 -- Janie and Harry -- Sister and Esker -- Meta and Jim -- Rowland and Daughty -- The lady visitor and the decision -- The ranch house and Mr. Norcross -- The instruction of town and country -- The courthouse square and depot, 1935 -- The alley way -- Miss Tenie -- Good people on the place -- Frank Hawkins Lewis, cattleman -- The future of the sense of place -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Sketches and letters of the antebellum children.
9781623491734 1623491738
Hawkins family.
Women ranchers--Texas--Matagorda County--Biography.
Ranchers--Texas--Matagorda County--Biography.
Ranch life--Texas--Matagorda County.
Plantation life--Texas--Matagorda County.
Matagorda County (Tex.)--History.
Hawkins Ranch (Tex.)--History.
Electronic books.
F392.M4 / F87 2014
976.4/132
The Hawkins Ranch in Texas from plantation times to the present / [electronic resource] : Margaret Lewis Furse. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; number 121 . - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 121. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Plantation beginnings, 1846 -- North Carolina roots -- Letters written en route -- Starting the Caney sugar plantation -- Ariella and plantation family life -- The case of Edgar and ways of thought in slavery times -- Building the ranch house (lake house), 1854 -- Effects of Civil War and emancipation -- Frank Hawkins and the development of cattle ranching -- Ariella's fight for her rights -- Young lady ranchers -- A birth, a death, and the move to town, 1896 -- Schooling and a house of their own, 1913 -- Young lady ranchers in charge, 1917 -- Courtship and marriage -- Lizzie -- The conversations in the family, 1935 -- Janie and Harry -- Sister and Esker -- Meta and Jim -- Rowland and Daughty -- The lady visitor and the decision -- The ranch house and Mr. Norcross -- The instruction of town and country -- The courthouse square and depot, 1935 -- The alley way -- Miss Tenie -- Good people on the place -- Frank Hawkins Lewis, cattleman -- The future of the sense of place -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Sketches and letters of the antebellum children.
9781623491734 1623491738
Hawkins family.
Women ranchers--Texas--Matagorda County--Biography.
Ranchers--Texas--Matagorda County--Biography.
Ranch life--Texas--Matagorda County.
Plantation life--Texas--Matagorda County.
Matagorda County (Tex.)--History.
Hawkins Ranch (Tex.)--History.
Electronic books.
F392.M4 / F87 2014
976.4/132