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6,000 miles of fence : life on the XIT Ranch of Texas /
In 1907 Cordelia Jane Sloan married Robert L. Duke, a ranch hand who had risen to division manager for the 3,000,000-acre XIT Ranch of Texas, the world's largest. An eager observer, she early began the habit of keeping a diary. As time passed, she had the foresight to realize that the sweaty, t...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
1961.
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| Collection: | M.K. Brown range life series ;
no. 1. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | In 1907 Cordelia Jane Sloan married Robert L. Duke, a ranch hand who had risen to division manager for the 3,000,000-acre XIT Ranch of Texas, the world's largest. An eager observer, she early began the habit of keeping a diary. As time passed, she had the foresight to realize that the sweaty, tired, hungry cowhands with whom she visited were part of a unique phase of American life. What she particularly perceived was that these men would be glamorized and the memory of their work distorted by writers who could sense a pay vein when they saw one. |
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| Description: | Includes index. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxii, 231 pages) : illustrations, portraits, maps |
| ISBN: | 9780292747845 0292747845 |