TY - BOOK AU - Furse,Margaret Lewis TI - The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: from plantation times to the present T2 - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University SN - 9781623491734 AV - F392 .H395 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - College Station PB - Texas A&M University Press KW - Hawkins family. KW - Plantation life KW - Texas KW - Matagorda County KW - Ranch life KW - Ranchers KW - Biography KW - Women ranchers KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=770574&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -