Title: Texas ranch women : three centuries of mettle and moxie /
Authors: Goldthwaite, Carmen,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Women ranchers Texas History.; Women ranchers Texas Biography.; Women pioneers Texas History.; Ranch life Texas History; Frontier and pioneer life Texas; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.; Frontier and pioneer life; Manners and customs; Ranch life; Women pioneers; Women ranchers; Texas History; Texas Social life and customs; Texas Biography; Texas
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: 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.