Petra's legacy [electronic resource] : the South Texas ranching empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy / Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick
- Author
- Monday, Jane Clements, 1941-
- Published
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- xii, 430 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Vick, Frances Brannen, 1935-
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- 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.
- Subject(s)
- Kenedy, Petra Vela, 1823-1885
- Kenedy, Mifflin, 1818-1895
- Women ranchers—Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)—Biography
- Ranchers—Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)—Biography
- Ranch life—Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)—History—19th century
- Married people—Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)—Biography
- Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)—Social life and customs—19th century
- Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)—Biography
- Texas, South—Biography
- Brownsville (Tex.)—Biography
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781585446148 (cloth : alk. paper)
1585446149 (cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index.
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