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Lambshead before Interwoven A Texas Range Chronicle, 1848–1878 by Frances Mayhugh Holden Drawings by John Guerin |
"There is no doubt that West Texas history has been enriched by the production of Frances M. Holden’s Lambshead before Interwoven."—Southwestern Historical Quarterly
" . . . a worthy relative of the book which was its inspiration."—The Cattleman
"For more than a hundred years the vigorous Matthews and Reynolds clans have graced the land and enhanced the genteel traditions of western living. I know no writer who could hold the subject in more affectionate regard than the imaginative author of this book, Frances Holden. It is a beautiful book."—J. Evetts Haley
Along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northwest Texas lies the Lambshead range—good water, protected valleys, and rich grasses, a rancher’s dream. The story of the Reynolds and Matthews families, who made that dream a reality, has been chronicled in Sallie Reynolds Matthews’s classic Interwoven. In Lambshead before Interwoven, Frances Holden tells of earlier events in the area and recounts some fascinating episodes omitted from Interwoven. The settler Thomas Lambshead, a farmer from Devon, England comes to light, along with other figures of greater renown who also made an appearance in the early history along the Clear Fork: Randolph B. Marcy, Robert E. Lee, Charles Goodnight, Maj. Robert S. Neighbors, John Larn, and John Selman. The book also includes three appendixes: “Geology of the Lambshead Ranch,” by Glen L. Evans; “Flora and Fauna of the Lambshead Ranch,” by A. S. Jackson; and “Initial Run of the Butterfield Overland Mail across Lambshead, 1858,” by Waterman L. Ormsby.
Based on a wealth of sources, including family documents and numerous interviews, Frances Holden’s narrative adds an invaluable chapter to both the Lambshead story and Texas range history.
FRANCES MAYHUGH HOLDEN is a researcher and writer in Lubbock, Texas.
Lambshead before Interwoven
ISBN 0-89096-122-0 cloth $24.95
LC 81-48374. 6x9. 252 pp. 6 b&w illus. 2 maps. Bib. Index.
Texana. Ranching History.
Publication Date: January 1997.
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