Old Ranches of the Texas Plains
Title | Old Ranches of the Texas Plains PDF eBook |
Author | Mondel Rogers |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Ranches |
ISBN |
Old Ranches of the Texas Plains
Title | Old Ranches of the Texas Plains PDF eBook |
Author | Mondel Rogers |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | 124 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780890960196 |
Eighty paintings provide a pictorial survey of the development of ranch architecture and of the growth of the range cattle industry on the West Texas Plains
Historic Ranches of Texas
Title | Historic Ranches of Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Clayton |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0292711891 |
Traces the history and present-day operation of twelve prominent Texas ranches.
Cowboy Life on the Texas Plains
Title | Cowboy Life on the Texas Plains PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Rector |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Photographs of early ranch life, with Introduction.
6666
Title | 6666 PDF eBook |
Author | Wyman Meinzer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780896725362 |
A defining study of the Four Sixes Ranch with photographs.
Caesar Kleberg and the King Ranch
Title | Caesar Kleberg and the King Ranch PDF eBook |
Author | Duane M. Leach |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2017-01-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1623495059 |
In this tribute to a pioneer conservationist, Duane M. Leach celebrates the life of an exceptional ranch manager on a legendary Texas ranch, a visionary for wildlife and modern ranch management, and an extraordinarily dedicated and generous man. Caesar Kleberg went to work on the King Ranch in 1900. For almost thirty years he oversaw the operations of the sprawling Norias division, a vast acreage in South Texas where he came to appreciate the importance of rangeland not only for cattle but also for wildlife. Creating a wildlife management and conservation initiative far ahead of its time, Kleberg established strict hunting rules and a program of enlightened habitat restoration. Because of his efforts and foresight, by his death in 1946 there were more white-tailed deer, wild turkey, bobwhite quail, javelinas, and mourning dove on the King Ranch than in the rest of the state. Kleberg’s legacy lives on at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute in Kingsville, where a research program he helped found has gained recognition far beyond the pastures of Norias.
Historic Ranches of Texas
Title | Historic Ranches of Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Clayton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 93 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780292711549 |
Lawrence Clayton and J. U. Salvant impart the traditions and spirit of each ranch, including the Four Sixes, Green, Iron Mountain, King, Lambshead, Matador, Pitchfork, Swenson, Waggoner, XIT, Y.O., and Yturria. Clayton writes of the timeless round of tasks that ranchers and cowboys perform today as their forebears did and also describes changes in ranching that have taken place over the years.