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Petra's legacy : the South Texas ranching empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy /

Title: Petra's legacy : the South Texas ranching empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy / Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick.
Author: Monday, Jane Clements, 1941-
Publication: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Vick, Frances Brannen, 1935-

Description

xii, 430 p. : ill., map; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Perspectives on South Texas

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index.

Contents

1823-54 : "into her world" : Petra's story -- 1823-54 : "into her world" : Mifflin's story -- 1855-60 : forging a life in Brownsville -- 1860-62 : war clouds gather -- 1863 : war closes on Rio Grande Valley -- 1864-65 : chaos along the Rio Grande -- 1866 : home again -- 1867-68 : "woe to Brownsville! woe to Matamoros!" -- 1869-71 : "quién viene" -- 1872-74 : one foot in Brownsville, one in the Wild Horse Desert -- 1873 : politics, bandits, and hard economic times -- 1874 : railroads and cattle drives -- 1875 : Leander McNelly and the Texas Rangers -- 1876 : the apple of his father's eye -- 1877-78 : "a fiend in human form" -- 1879-80 : last days at Laureles : Laurel Leaf Ranch -- 1881 : to the body of Christ : Corpus Christi -- 1882 : la parra : the Grapevine Ranch -- 1883 : they were always there for one another -- 1884 : farewell to Santiago -- 1885 : goodbye to Petrita.

ISBN

9781585446148 (cloth : alk. paper)
1585446149 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007007775

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library