The Wests of Texas
Subtitle: Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs
By: Bruce M. Shackelford ; foreword by Marise McDermott
Publisher: Texas State Historical Association
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Denton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781625110268
Subjects: Biography; Ranchers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-159) and index.
Table of contents: title: Genealogies; title: Texas cattle, Texas drovers; title: Iron men and West Point furnace; title: Marriage and family; title: Business expansion; title: Visiting the in-laws in Pennsylvania; title: Leaving Tennessee; title: Gone to Texas to stay; title: The trip; title: Sweet home; title: A sea of grass, a land of cattle; title: At war's end; title: The first West trail drive; title: Family problems; title: The 1860s: learning to cowboy; title: Up the trail from Texas; title: George Washington West (1851-1926); title: Solomon West (1853-1920); title: Isaac "Ike" West (1858-1916); title: The drover's life and the cattle industry; title: Wives at home; title: West brothers partners; title: West brothers cowboys; title: African American cowboys; title: Moving on; title: In-laws, outlaws, and kinfolk; title: The Willauers; title: Searcy girls and the widow Hinkley; title: The Kings; title: Carrie Thomas West and Dr. Benjamin Wycliffe Bristow; title: Louie West and the Shiners; title: Slaves and kinfolk: Hannah West; title: Old friends; title: Settling on the ranch; title: Bennett and West in Jackson County; title: The Live Oak County ranch; title: Trail drives and ranches; title: The trail over rail; title: Sol and Ike leave sweet home; title: Moving to town and building another; title: Homes in King William; title: The West mansion; title: Another Live Oak County entrepreneur; title: George West the town; title: More entrepreneurs; title: The end of an era; title: The legacy: oil and gas, land, law, and celebrity; title: Albert West Jr.; title: Margo West; title: Living the traditions: Mary Nan West; title: West legacy.