The Taft Ranch : : A Texas Principality /

The Taft Ranch : : A Texas Principality / / A. Ray Stephens.

For fifty years the progressive Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, popularly known as the Taft Ranch, led in the development of South Texas, and in the early twentieth century achieved national and international repute for its contributions to agriculture. The story of the ranch reaches its climax as t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Stephens, A. Ray,
TeilnehmendeR:
Frantz, Joe B.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1964
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:M. K. Brown Range Life Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • I. LIVE OAK PENINSULA—EMPORIUM OF THE SOUTHWEST
  • II. LONGHORNS AND ACRES
  • III. THE GREAT PLAINS BUBBLE
  • IV. READJUSTMENT IN RANGE PRACTICES
  • V. NEW MEANS TO NEW MARKETS
  • VI. LAND BOOM AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
  • VII. PROGRESS UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE REORGANIZATION
  • VIII. FROM BRANDING IRONS TO PLOWSHARES
  • IX. NEW PHASE IN INDUSTRY
  • X. BIGNESS IN SOUTH TEXAS AGRICULTURE
  • XI. THE FINAL YEARS
  • EPILOGUE
  • APPENDIX: Extent of the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company Range in 1894
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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