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020 _a9781623491734
020 _a1623491738
020 _z9781623491109 (cloth : alk. paper)
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_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aF392.M4
_bF87 2014
082 0 0 _a976.4/132
_223
100 1 _aFurse, Margaret Lewis,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Hawkins Ranch in Texas
_h[electronic resource] :
_bfrom plantation times to the present /
_cMargaret Lewis Furse.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aCollege Station :
_bTexas A&M University Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
490 1 _aCentennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ;
_vnumber 121
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPlantation 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aMatagorda County (Tex.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aHawkins Ranch (Tex.)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWomen ranchers
_zTexas
_zMatagorda County
_vBiography.
650 0 _aRanchers
_zTexas
_zMatagorda County
_vBiography.
650 0 _aRanch life
_zTexas
_zMatagorda County.
650 0 _aPlantation life
_zTexas
_zMatagorda County.
600 3 0 _aHawkins family.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aCentennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ;
_vno. 121.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781623491734/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c30077
_d30077