Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire
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Don Graham
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PRAISE FOR KINGS OF TEXAS
"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." –Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove
"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the present-and a first-rate read." –H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American
"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." –Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove
"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the present-and a first-rate read." –H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American
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Book details
- Author
- Don Graham
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 304
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- Topics
- Texas history · King Ranch · American West · cattle ranching · Texas-Mexico border · family dynasty · 19th century America
- ISBN-13
- 9780471589051 (Paperback)9781630269876 (Hardcover)
About the author
DON GRAHAM was the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas, Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology, and No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy.
Graham’s book Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire won the Carr P. Collins Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters for best nonfiction book of the year. He served as president of the Texas Institute of Letters and as a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1971.