The Wests of Texas [electronic resource] : Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs / by Bruce M. Shackelford ; foreword by Marise McDermott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shackelford, Bruce M., 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ranchers--Texas--Biography.

Ranchers.

Texas--Biography.

Texas.

West family.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : Texas State Historical Association, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bruce M. Shackelford is a nationally recognized authority on the history of the American West. Currently the Curator of the South Texas Heritage Center and the George West Trail Drivers Gallery at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas, he has created exhibits utilizing the Museum's important history collections on subjects from American Indian cultures to the history of horsemanship and the cattle industry in North America. In addition he frequently lectures on related topics and has written numerous articles, authored chapters for the books Black Cowboys of Texas and Texas Women on the Cattl

Contents:

Genealogies

Texas cattle, Texas drovers

Iron men and West Point furnace

Marriage and family

Business expansion

Visiting the in-laws in Pennsylvania

Leaving Tennessee

Gone to Texas to stay

The trip

Sweet home

A sea of grass, a land of cattle

At war's end

The first West trail drive

Family problems

The 1860s: learning to cowboy

Up the trail from Texas

George Washington West (1851-1926)

Solomon West (1853-1920)

Isaac "Ike" West (1858-1916)

The drover's life and the cattle industry

Wives at home

West brothers partners

West brothers cowboys

African American cowboys

Moving on

In-laws, outlaws, and kinfolk

The Willauers

Searcy girls and the widow Hinkley

The Kings

Carrie Thomas West and Dr. Benjamin Wycliffe Bristow

Louie West and the Shiners

Slaves and kinfolk: Hannah West

Old friends

Settling on the ranch

Bennett and West in Jackson County

The Live Oak County ranch

Trail drives and ranches

The trail over rail

Sol and Ike leave sweet home

Moving to town and building another

Homes in King William

The West mansion

Another Live Oak County entrepreneur

George West the town

More entrepreneurs

The end of an era

The legacy: oil and gas, land, law, and celebrity

Albert West Jr.

Margo West

Living the traditions: Mary Nan West

West legacy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

907952403