Kings Of Texas The 150 Year Saga Of An American Ranching Empire
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Kings Of Texas
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Author : Don Graham
language : en
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Release Date : 2003
Kings Of Texas written by Don Graham and has been published by Trade Paper Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The vast, fabulous, and powerful King Ranch, bigger than Rhode Island, is the most famous ranch in American history, and its story has the epic sweep and drama of classic movies like "Red River" and "Giant." In this gripping narrative about a majestic land and enterprising people, Graham explores the intertwined desires of land, ownership, and destiny.
Bob And Helen Kleberg Of King Ranch
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Author : Helen Kleberg Groves
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-25
Bob And Helen Kleberg Of King Ranch written by Helen Kleberg Groves and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with History categories.
King Ranch. The name is embroidered in the tapestry of Texas, rising from the sunbaked coastal plains in the infancy of the state itself. King Ranch is the inspiration of legends and speculation, tradition and history. Rawhide-tough through drought, Indian attacks, Civil War, and the Great Depression, among other trials, King Ranch is the star of Texas. Now the memoirs of Helen King Kleberg Alexander-Groves, the only child of Bob and Helen Kleberg, give a personal glimpse of life on the storied ranch of the Kings and the Klebergs. This intimate and compelling book chronicles not only the history of the ranch but also the life of Bob and Helen Kleberg, the first family of cattle ranching. From the Santa Gertrudis, the first cattle breed developed in America and the first breed recognized worldwide in over a century, to the Triple Crown–winning Thoroughbred Assault, Bob and Helen Kleberg changed the ranching industry. The memoirs of “Helenita” open the door to the romance of Southwest cattle ranching, as well as the grit, glory, and inner workings of King Ranch in Texas and its ranches around the world. With over 200 photographs, some by Toni Frissell and many by her close friend and fellow photographer Helen Kleberg herself, this lavishly illustrated portrait includes accounts of the Klebergs’ famous hospitality, extended not only to the celebrities who were entertained regularly but also to the Kineños, the loyal ranch hands first brought to King Ranch by Captain King. Hemingwayesque photos depict hunting adventures in the Texas brush country—for which the ranch is still famous. Bob and Helen Kleberg of King Ranch is a view from the center of the King Ranch legacy, perpetuated now for some 150 years. Bob and Helen Kleberg of King Ranch is a requisite addition to the library of any ranching, history, or Texana aficionado.
Bob Kleberg And The King Ranch
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Author : John Cypher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-03
Bob Kleberg And The King Ranch written by John Cypher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This absorbing biography, written by Kleberg's top assistant of many years, captures both the life of the man and the spirit of the kingdom he ruled, offering a rare, insider's view of life on a fabled Texas ranch.
Historic Ranches Of Texas
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Author : Lawrence Clayton
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1997
Historic Ranches Of Texas written by Lawrence Clayton and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Traces the history and present-day operation of twelve prominent Texas ranches.
Kings Of Texas
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Author : Don Graham
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2010-12-22
Kings Of Texas written by Don Graham and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-22 with History categories.
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
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Author : Wyman Meinzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
6666 written by Wyman Meinzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
A defining study of the Four Sixes Ranch with photographs.
The Big Ranch Country
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Author : J. W. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Double Mountain Books
Release Date : 1999
The Big Ranch Country written by J. W. Williams and has been published by Double Mountain Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Letters To Alice
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Author : Jane Clements Monday
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-29
Letters To Alice written by Jane Clements Monday and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with History categories.
In the summer of 1881, Robert Justus Kleberg rode across the hot, dusty South Texas brush country to the palatial home of Capt. Richard King to consult with the cattle baron about attending to his legal affairs. On that same journey, the young lawyer also first laid eyes on Alice King, “Princess of the Wild Horse Desert.” Neither of their lives would ever be the same. Published for the first time in this book, the love letters written by Kleberg to Alice Gertrudis King provide a glimpse of the lives of two of the most influential people in Texas history. Editors Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick have also provided generous documentation and annotation of these important primary documents from the Special Collections at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, affording historians and interested readers an insider’s view of one of the world’s greatest ranching empires as it transitioned from its founders to the next generation. Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King-Ranch Dynasty represents the only existing collection of letters between any of the great Texas cattle barons and their wives. Although a great deal is already known about the ranch and its development, Monday and Vick present for the first time Robert Justus Kleberg’s personal perspective on his first meeting with Alice King, their early courtship, the difficulties obtaining her parents’ permission to marry, and the poignant time surrounding Captain King’s death.
Cow Boys And Cattle Men
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Author : Jacqueline M. Moore
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010
Cow Boys And Cattle Men written by Jacqueline M. Moore and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Giant
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Author : Don Graham
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2018-04-10
Giant written by Don Graham and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Performing Arts categories.
A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Texas, director George Stevens brought together a volatile mix of egos, insecurities, sexual proclivities, and talent. Stevens knew he was overwhelmed with Hudson’s promiscuity, Taylor’s high diva-dom, and Dean’s egotistical eccentricity. Yet he coaxed performances out of them that made cinematic history, winning Stevens the Academy Award for Best Director and garnering nine other nominations, including a nomination for Best Actor for James Dean, who died before the film was finished. In this compelling and impeccably researched narrative history of the making of the film, Don Graham chronicles the stories of Stevens, whose trauma in World War II intensified his ambition to make films that would tell the story of America; Edna Ferber, a considerable literary celebrity, who meets her match in the imposing Robert Kleberg, proprietor of the vast King Ranch; and Glenn McCarthy, an American oil tycoon; and Errol Flynn lookalike with a taste for Hollywood. Drawing on archival sources Graham’s Giant is a comprehensive depiction of the film’s production showing readers how reality became fiction and fiction became cinema.