Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie (American Heritage)

Synopsis

Texas Would Not Be Texas Without The Formidable Women Of Its Past. Beneath The Sunbonnets, Stetsons Or High-fashion Couture, The Women Of The Lone Star State Carved Out Ranches, Breathed New Life Into Spreads And Expanded Acreage When Husbands, Sons And Fathers Fell. Throughout The Centuries, The Women Of Texas's Ranches Defended Home And Hearth With Cannon And Shot. They Rescued Hostages. They Nurtured Livestock Through Hard Winters And Long Droughts And Drove Them Up The Cattle Trails. They Built Communities And Saw To It That Faith And Education Prevailed For Their Children And For Those Of Others. Join Author Carmen Goldthwaite In An Inspiring Survey Of Fierce Lone Star Ladies-- 1. Fable And Fact That Led To Texas's Changing Ways -- 2. Spanish Land Grants Awarded To Or Inherited By Women, 1750-1821 -- 3. Mexican Land Grants Owned By Women, 1821-36 -- 4. Ranching In The Wild Horse Prairie, 1850s-1900s -- 5. Women Hit The Trail -- 6. Moving North And West Into Texas, 1830s-'70s -- 7. Searching For Water...found Oil, 1920s-'30s -- 8. Staking Claim On The Staked Plains, 1870s-1900s -- 9. Mountain And Desert Ranches Take In Guests -- 10. Woman To Woman : Continuing Family Traditions -- Afterword. Carmen Goldthwaite. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 169-182) And Index.