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First edition. |
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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; number 121
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Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 121.
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| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In 1846, James Boyd Hawkins, his wife Ariella, and their young children left North Carolina to establish a sugar plantation in Matagorda County, in the Texas coastal bend. In The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present, Margaret Lewis Furse, a great-granddaughter of James B. and Ariella Hawkins and an active partner in today's Hawkins Ranch, has mined public records, family archives, and her own childhood memories to compose this sweeping portrait of more than 160 years of plantation, ranch, and small-town life. Letters sent by the Hawkinses from the Texas plantation to thei. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Hawkins family.
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Hawkins family. |
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Hawkins Ranch (Tex.) -- History.
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Plantation life -- Texas -- Matagorda County.
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Plantation life. |
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Texas -- Matagorda County. |
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Ranch life -- Texas -- Matagorda County.
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Ranch life. |
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Ranchers -- Texas -- Matagorda County -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Women ranchers -- Texas -- Matagorda County -- Biography.
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Ranchers. |
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Matagorda County (Tex.) -- History.
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Women ranchers. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Texas -- Hawkins Ranch. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Furse, Margaret Lewis. Hawkins Ranch in Texas. First edition 1623491738 (DLC) 2013040905 |
| ISBN |
1623491738 (electronic book) |
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9781623491734 (electronic book) |
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9781623491109 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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162349110X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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