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The Hawkins Ranch in Texas : from plantation times to the present /
In 1846, James Boyd Hawkins, his wife Ariella, and their young children left North Carolina to establish a sugar plantation in Matagorda County, in the Texas coastal bend. In The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present, Margaret Lewis Furse, a great-granddaughter of James B. and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ;
no. 121. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.