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  - 9781623491109 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - F392.M4 F87 2014
U1  - 976.4/132 23
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  - Hawkins Ranch (Tex.)
KW  - History
KW  - Matagorda County (Tex.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -