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Monday Jane Clements <1941-> |
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Titolo |
Petra's legacy [[electronic resource] ] : the South Texas ranching empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy / / Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick |
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College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2007 |
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1-299-05347-5 |
1-60344-460-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (445 p.) |
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Collana |
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Perspectives on south Texas |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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VickFrances Brannen <1935-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women ranchers - Rio Grande Valley |
Ranchers - Rio Grande Valley |
Ranch life - Rio Grande Valley - History - 19th century |
Married people - Rio Grande Valley |
Electronic books. |
Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) Social life and customs 19th century |
Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) Biography |
Texas, South Biography |
Brownsville (Tex.) Biography |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1823-54 : "into her world" : Petra's story -- 1823-54 : "into her world" : Mifflin's story -- 1855-60 : forging a life in Brownsville -- 1860-62 : war clouds gather -- 1863 : war closes on Rio Grande Valley -- 1864-65 : chaos along the Rio Grande -- 1866 : home again -- 1867-68 : "woe to Brownsville! woe to Matamoros!" -- 1869-71 : "quien viene" -- 1872-74 : one foot in Brownsville, one in the Wild Horse Desert -- 1873 : politics, bandits, and hard economic times -- 1874 : railroads and cattle drives -- 1875 : Leander McNelly and the Texas Rangers -- 1876 : the apple of his father's eye -- 1877-78 : "a fiend in human form" -- 1879-80 : last days at Laureles : Laurel Leaf Ranch -- 1881 : to the body of Christ : Corpus Christi -- 1882 : la parra : the Grapevine |
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