{"product_id":"kings-of-texas-the-150-year-saga-of-an-american-ranching-empire-paperback","title":"Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for KINGS OF TEXAS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"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.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"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.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e-H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKings 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.\u003cbr\u003e-Larry McMurtry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKings of Texas is the sprawling saga of the larger-than-life characters who founded, built, and expanded the most famous cattle ranch in American history. Renowned Texas scholar, writer, and storyteller Don Graham weaves a compelling multigenerational family drama into the complex social history of South Texas. The result is an intricate tapestry laced with thrilling tales drawn from decades of conflict arising from the Mexican War, the Civil War, and countless skirmishes between Texas Rangers and border bandits. From humble frontier jacales to the sleek offices of a multinational corporation, Kings of Texas tells an unforgettable story of vision, violence, greed, loyalty, and betrayal, set on a stage as vast as the American dream.\u003cbr\u003e\"A crisp history of the King Ranch . . . a good read about an era long gone.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e-H. W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDON GRAHAM is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly magazine and the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas, Austin. He is also past president of the Texas Institute of Letters and the author of the critically acclaimed biography of Audie Murphy, No Name on the Bullet. Among Graham's other works are Giant Country: Essays on Texas and Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande: A Texas Anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978492477741,"sku":"9780471589051","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/OCsvSWJXT3BmMFNScHhpVHZtUXM1dz09.webp?v=1775805464","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/kings-of-texas-the-150-year-saga-of-an-american-ranching-empire-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}