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Frissell, Toni: The King Ranch. 1939 - 1944. A photographic essay. New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1975.
Umschl. leicht berieben. - When Richard King, an indomitable and tough young riverboat captain, purchased part of a Spanish land grant on the banks of Santa Gertrudis Creek in 1853, he began a ranching empire and a South Texas tradition. The King Ranch has since spread into Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Florida, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Australia, Spain, and Morocco. The Kleberg family, descendents of patriarch King, has continued the historic tradition. The photographs in this book, the work of Toni Frissell who as aclose'riend was allowed to make an unprecedented photographic record of activities on the ranch during a number of visits between 1939 and 1944, are already historically important. Toni Frissell has documented the King Ranch vaquero and his world. Roundup and branding, drives, the cow camp, and the individuals who participated are all presented for the first time: the Kinehos (King Ranch people) at work. By climbing a windmill and fastening herself with a strap, she obtained dramatic overhead shots of cattle drives stretching out into the distance, giving a vivid image of the vastness associated with the King Ranch. The Kleberg family has been the dominant force on the ranch for more than three-quarters of a century, touching every facet of the vast operation. Holland McCombs, himself a veteran of almost thirty years of close contact with the Ranch, says, "Robert Justus Kleberg, Jr., was a man of many and ambitious dreams. Unlike most of us, he had the force and the ability to accomplish most of them. Perhaps his most cherished dream was that of supplyinghuman energy around the world, especially to the disadvantaged and underdeveloped regions." "With these cattle and horses and our techniques," said Kleberg, "we can do this." "Kleberg lived to see the King Ranch cattle, horses, men, and techniques supplying 'red meat, protein, and human energy' on five continents," writes MCombs. Much has changed since these pictures were taken over thirty years ago, but history seems to live there, because they still do some things the old way. "We do not do it this way because of history and tradition," said Kleberg. "We do it this way because it is the most efficient way under our set of circumstances." Today the King Ranch has some 365,000 head of cattle spread over the 13 million acres of ranchland it operates around the world. The King Ranch of South Texas, its work, its play, its people is the subject of this book, produced by two who have known it for more than a generation. -

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J R LeMaster: Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain, ROUTLEDGE, Februar 2011 ISBN: 0415890586
'A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended.' -- Library Journal The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's travel narratives, essays, letters, sketches, autobiography, journalism and fiction reflect his personal experience, particular attention is given to the delicate relationship between art and life, between artistic interpretations and their factual source.Now available first time in paperback, this comprehensive resource includes information on: Twain's life and times: the author's childhood in Missouri and apprenticeship as a riverboat pilot, early career as a journalist in the West, world travels, friendships with well-known figures, reading and education, family life and career complete works: including novels, travel narratives, short stories, sketches, burlesques, and essays significant characters, places, and landmarks recurring concerns, themes or concepts: such as humor, language; race, war, religion, politics, imperialism, art and science Twain's sources and influences. Useful for students, researchers, librarians and teachers, this volume features a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry also includes a bibliography for further study.

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Denton, Sally: Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West, VINTAGE BOOKS, Juli 2006 ISBN: 9781400034734

Sofort lieferbar! Mängelexemplar mit Lagerspuren. Rechnung mit MwSt. Kartoniert / Broschiert, 216 S., 20,6cm x 13,4cm x 1,6cm, The richly told story of a nineteenth-century woman-the author's great-great-grandmother-whose religious faith was betrayed and regained on a journey across the American West. <BR>In the 1850s, Jean Rio was a recently widowed English mother of seven. Rich, well educated, musically gifted, deeply spiritual, and increasingly dismayed by the social injustices she saw around her, she was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. On her fifty-six-day Atlantic crossing, she began keeping a diary, and this extraordinary chronicle is the basis of Sally Denton's book. <BR>We follow Jean Rio from New Orleans, where she disembarks, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and, finally, westward by wagon train. We see her family transformed by necessity-mastering frontier skills, surviving storms, finding their own food, overcoming illness and injury-during the five months it takes them to reach Zion. <BR>We see her initial enthusiasm turn to disillusionment: She is forced to surrender her money to the church. She realizes she has been lied to about polygamy-Mormons do practice it-which she detests. Acts of Mormon violence against nonbelievers repel her. Her musical skills are buried beneath the daily rigors of farming. Two of her sons flee to California. We witness her seventeen-year struggle to make peace with her situation before she, too, escapes to California-to freedom, a career as a midwife, and a new religion that fulfills her. <BR>Dramatic and powerful, "Faith and Betrayal is the moving account of one woman's gamble in an emerging America, and a valuable addition to the history of both the Mormon experience and the long saga of immigrant pioneer women.

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