Isbn: 9780931722509 - the armstrong chronicle: a ranching history (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD, no dust jacket as issued. Light wear on cover. xxi, 358 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm. . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * PART ONE: 1.) The Durst Legacy -- 2.) The Collision of Cultures -- 3.) At Long Last, Independence! -- 4.) On To South Texas -- 5.) A Young Bride's Challenge -- 6.) The Interim -- 7.) Bandits, Cattle Thieves, and Texas Rangers -- 8.) Desperadoes Meet their Match -- 9.) The Ranger Takes a Bride -- 10.) Ranch Building, a Family Alliance -- 11.) The Railroad, a Vision for South Texas ------- * PART TWO: Jamie, Josephine, and Julia, Lives of Their Own -- 12.) A New Era of Border Banditry -- 13.) The Charlie Armstrong Years -- 14.) The Adventures of Tom Armstrong -- 15.) The Stuff of Heroes -- 16.) The Major Calls the Shots -- 17.) A Heritage of Progress ------- * Photographs and Maps -- * Chapter Notes -- * Bibliography -- * Appendices -- * Index. . . . . . . . . . . FROM THE AUTHORS INTRODUCTION: Perhaps at first the land was a challenge, a thing to possess and to conquer, but along the way. the conquerors themselves became the possessed. The land became a part of their very souls. Thus was the story of America -- of the western frontiers -- of South Texas. In many cases, the more forbidding the prize, the greater the reward of pursuit. The men and women who successfully claimed the stubborn land for their own were rugged, though not necessarily rough, and invincibly determined. They and their descendants are bound together by the sometimes harsh realities of the land they cherish. It is in their blood, a part of their heritage. -- Diane Solether Smith. Inscribed by Author(s). …