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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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Pubblicazione: | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (445 p.) |
Disciplina: | 976.4/405092 |
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Soggetto topico: | Women ranchers - Rio Grande Valley |
Ranchers - Rio Grande Valley | |
Ranch life - Rio Grande Valley - History - 19th century | |
Married people - Rio Grande Valley | |
Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
VickFrances Brannen <1935->
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Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Ranch -- 1883 : they were always there for one another -- 1884 : farewell to Santiago -- 1885 : goodbye to Petrita. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Petra's legacy ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-299-05347-5 |
1-60344-460-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458483703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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