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Kings of Texas : the 150-year saga of an American ranching empire /

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King Ranch, carved from the scrub and mesquite of the South Texas coastal plains and comprising more acreage than the state of Rhode Island, is the largest and most famous cattle ranch in American history. From cattle empire to oil empire to multilayered, media-shy corporation beset by legal battles...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graham, Don, 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2003]
Subjects:
King Ranch (Tex.) > History.
King Ranch (Tex.) > Biography.
Ranch life > Texas.
Vie au ranch > Texas.
Ranch life.
Texas.
Texas > King Ranch.
History.
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access:Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Manifest Destiny's Children
  • The Quartermaster's Depot
  • The Preacher and the Preacher's Daughter
  • Sea of Grass
  • Grandma's Cattle
  • His Majesty King Cotton
  • Ricardo King, Owner of the Hacienda Gertrudis
  • A Second Alamo
  • The Great Cattle King of Texas
  • Cause No. 1279
  • Quieted in the Possession of His Lands
  • The Succession
  • The Unquiet Past
  • Chapman volume King Ranch, Incorporated.