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Texas Women on the Cattle Trails (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce) (Volume 13) Paperback – March 11, 2019

by Sara R. Massey (Editor)

4.7 19 ratings

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“In these pages, you won’t find a single damsel in distress. There are no dance hall queens or saloon floozies, either. The sixteen women profiled here validate the importance of ordinary lives and offer new insights into the reality of the frontier West.”—Victoria Advocate

“Over the past several decades, historians have acknowledged women’s contributions to the history of the west and to cattle drives across the United States. But what separates this book from other publications is that it offers specific names, faces, and stories of an assortment of women who took to the Texas cattle trails between 1868 and 1889.”—East Texas Historical Journal

“Readers will find it hard to resist becoming fascinated by the risks that these women took and the degree of market savvy they possessed.”—Western Historical Journal

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336 pages
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English
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Texas A&M University Press
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March 11, 2019
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6.1 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
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1623497868
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978-1623497866
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SARA R. MASSEY served as editor of Black Cowboys of Texas. While on the staff of the Institute of Texan Cultures, she was also the supervising editor for five books on Texas ethnic groups, the Texans All series, published by Texas A&M University Press.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Texas A&M University Press; Reprint edition (March 11, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1623497868
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1623497866
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches

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- #18,741 in Women's Biographies

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Celia Hayes

Who knew?

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2012

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... that women were so active in the great days of the long-trail western cattle drives? I especially relished learning about Lizzie Johnson Williams, school-teacher turned accountant turned writer turned cattle ranch owner. The chapter about her - a late 20th century independent woman in the middle of the 19th is an eye-opener and is worth the price of the whole rest of the book.

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Judith L. Michener

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails.

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2014

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This book is a great source for information on women who were involved in the cattle business, either personally or because of their families or husbands. An eye opening revelation of the experiences of women in a virtual man's world, this book should be included in any library of western histories.

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2016

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great book about strong independent Texas Women!

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HasPlenty

Nice, but not what I expected.

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2014

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My husband surprised me with this gift.

I was anticipating stories of women who actually drove the cattle, instead of the women who "stood by their man". Perhaps I have not read enough of the chapters yet and maybe there are some stories more like what I had expected. I will read on!

The stories are interesting, but just not what I was hoping them to be.

Yes, I would recommend it.

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Sunshine

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Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2015

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Great book, fast shipping!

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CBonner

New Insights into the Reality of the Old West

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2007

Almost everyone has heard of Annie Oakley, Belle Starr, and Calamity Jane. But how about Kate Medlin, Hattie Cluck, Margaret Borland or Cornelia Adair? These are just four of the sixteen fearless women featured in "TEXAS WOMAN ON THE CATTLE TRAILS," a compendium of short biographies written by sixteen Texas writers, and edited by Austwell resident Sara R. Massey.

Some of the featured women were young newlyweds when they went up the trail. Others were middle-aged mothers, and one was pregnant. They were widows, business women, heiresses. Some were cultured and educated. Almost all encountered Indians, bandits or rustlers. They endured blizzards, floods, stampedes, disease, death. They made deals with cattle buyers and sellers. They witnessed a new country in its earliest growing pains, and most lived to tell their tales, even to embellish them over time.

Take Minta Corum Holmsley of Comanche, Texas, who rode her horse up the trail sidesaddle, she said, "because we didn't have better sense." On that drive she claimed to have met John Wesley Hardin masquerading as an Indian, and later to have encountered a hundred Sioux who had fought Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. She managed to save her favorite cow pony by screaming in one Indian's face until he let go and fled in fright.

Another woman, the widowed Margaret Heffernon Borland of Victoria lost four of her seven children to one epidemic of Yellow Fever. And Margaret herself died at the end of her own cattle drive in 1873. The Wichita, Kansas newspaper announced her death on July 5, at the age of 49, as having been caused by "mania, super-induced by her long, tedious journey and over-taxation of the brain." Her nephew had her body shipped back to Victoria and she is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.

I particularly enjoyed glimpses of familiar Texas places as they were in the 19th century: the loud bawling of the cattle as they forded the Shoal Creek in Austin; a house in Banquete, once a Confederate hospital and said to be inhabited by ghosts; a roving band of hide-skinners scouring Goliad after a brutal winter decimated the cattle population.

All of these sixteen were ranchwomen, skilled at riding, either sidesaddle or astride, or at handling a horse or mule-drawn wagon. They were proficient in the use of lariats, branding irons, whips, and castrating knives. They carried their share of the workload, and faced all the same hardships and hazards of driving cattle up the trail as the men. In these pages, you won't find a single damsel in distress. There are no dance hall queens or saloon floozies either. The sixteen women profiled here validate the importance of ordinary lives and offer new insights into the reality of the frontier West.

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Terrie L. Todd

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2007

I have really enjoyed this book it is historically correct and well referencedit has been a big help in my research.

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