The hardpan layer of the Caprock undergirds the high plains of the Llano Estacado, where it has resisted erosion with the same tenacity that it has collected stories. From Apache hunting grounds to Mennonite settlements, the region is no stranger to...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Nancy and Ted Paup Ranching Heritage Series
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Aug-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781623499716)
The Lazy S Ranch, one of the last major ranches to be established in Texas, came into being at a time when most of the other great ranches were disappearing. Founded in 1898 by Dallas banker and rancher Colonel Christopher Columbus Slaughter, the La...Lasīt vairāk
The distinctive high mesa straddling West Texas and Eastern New Mexico creates a vista that is equal parts sprawling lore and big blue sky. From Lubbock, the areas informal capital, to the farthest reaches of the staked plains known as the Llano Est...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Nov-2017, Paperback, Izdevniecība: History Press, ISBN-13: 9781625858863)
The Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain, of Texas and eastern New Mexico spreads two hundred miles across what early visitors called an ocean of land. No other place on Earth is quite like it. Humans first inhabited the area more than twelve thousand...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2012, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806142937)
Hailed as the Cattle King of Texas, C. C. Slaughter (1837-1919) was also a Texas Ranger, banker, and philanthropist. In addition to his business activities, this biography covers Slaughters contributions to the mission of the Baptist Church and his...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2009, Hardback, Izdevniecība: State House Press, ISBN-13: 9781933337357)
The Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church has a complicated and fascinating history. Its story parallels that of the settlement of the frontier of Northwest Texas. Methodist circuit riders rode in advance of the railroads, an...Lasīt vairāk
Many of the great Texas ranches established during the cattle boom of the 1880s became immediate business successes, but as time passed, many of them failed. Oil, Taxes, and Cats is the story of one of the survivors and of the family that kept i...Lasīt vairāk
When David M. DeVitt died in 1934, both of his sons having tragically predeceased him, the future of his estate and the West Texas ranch he had founded in 1895 seemed precariously in question. Yet Christine DeVitt, the elder surviving daughter, was d...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-1981, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9780292710672)
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Traces the life of a Texas pioneer, who established a huge, million-acre ranch and played an important role in the development of the state...Lasīt vairāk
