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

Title
  1. Petra's legacy : the South Texas ranching empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy / Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick.
Published by
  1. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2007], ©2007.
Author
  1. Monday, Jane Clements, 1941-

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Additional authors
  1. Vick, Frances Brannen, 1935-
Description
  1. xii, 430 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm.
Series statement
  1. Perspectives on south Texas
Uniform title
  1. Perspectives on south Texas.
Subject
  1. Kenedy, Petra Vela, 1823-1885
  2. Kenedy, Mifflin, 1818-1895
  3. Women ranchers > Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > Biography
  4. Ranchers > Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > Biography
  5. Ranch life > Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > History > 19th century
  6. Married people > Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > Biography
  7. Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > Social life and customs > 19th century
  8. Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > Biography
  9. Texas, South > Biography
  10. Brownsville (Tex.) > Biography
Contents
  1. Chapter 1. 1823-54: "Into Her World"-Petra's Story -- Chapter 2. 1823-54: "Into Her World"-Mifflin's Story -- Chapter 3. 1855-60: Forging a Life in Brownsville -- Chapter 4. 1860-62: War Clouds Gather -- Chapter 5. 1863: War Closes in on the Rio Grande Valley -- Chapter 6. 1864-65: Chaos along the Rio Grande -- Chapter 7. 1866: Home Again -- Chapter 8. 1867-68: "Woe to Brownsville! Woe to Matamoros!" -- Chapter 9. 1869-71 "Quien Viene?" -- Chapter 10. 1872-74: One Foot in Brownsville, One in the Wild Horse Desert -- Chapter 11. 1873: Politics, Bandits, and Hard Economic Times -- Chapter 12. 1874: Railroads and Cattle Drives -- Chapter 13. 1875: Leander McNelly and the Texas Rangers -- Chapter 14. 1876: The Apple of His Father's Eye -- Chapter 15. 1877-78: "A Fiend in Human Form" -- Chapter 16. 1879-80: Last Days at Los Laureles-The Laurel Leaf Ranch -- Chapter 17. 1881: To the Body of Christ-Corpus Christi -- Chapter 18. 1882: La Parra-The Grapevine Ranch -- Chapter 19. 1883: They Were Always There for One Another -- Chapter 20. 1884: Farewell to Santiago -- Chapter 21. 1885: Goodbye to Petrita.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index.