Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Manifest Destiny's Children. The Quartermaster's Depot. The Preacher and the Preacher's Daughter. Sea of Grass. Grandma's Cattle. His Majesty King Cotton. Ricardo King, Owner of the Hacienda Gertrudis. A Second Alamo. The Great Cattle King of Texas. Cause No. 1279. Quieted in the Possession of His Lands. The Succession. The Unquiet Past. Chapman v. King Ranch, Inc. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

DON 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 Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas.

Reviews

"is the right man for the task of chronicling this Jonesian expanse of archetypal Texana...a pleasure to read". (Austin American-Statesman, January 19, 2003) "His latest is an easy-to-read popular narrative... Highly recommended for Southwestern libraries, both public and academic." (Library Journal, March 1, 2003) Full of myth and misunderstanding, there's a Texas for everyone... Graham writes about Texas recognizing the wide-open country that we love, while at the same time putting longitude and latitude in proper perspective... "Kings of Texas" is a pleasure to read. (Austin American Statesman) "A crisp history of the King Ranch... a good read about an era long gone." --Boston Globe