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The Hawkins Ranch in Texas : from plantation times to the present / Margaret Lewis Furse.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, (c)2014.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781623491734
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F392 .H395 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
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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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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