FROM RATTLESNAKES TO ROAD AGENTS. Rough Times on the Frio.

Farris, Frances Bramlette.

ISBN 10: 0912646942 / ISBN 13: 9780912646947

Published by Texas Christian University Press, Fort Worth, TX, 1985

About this Item

Hard cover as new. Edited with an Introduction by C. L. Sonnichsen. 1st edition. 137 pp. Dust jacket, illus. Ranch life in South Texas at the end of the 19th century. author wrote her book in 1944, she was already in her 70's. Personal gift inscription by Sonnichsen to Harwood Hinton, Texas Historian.

Seller Inventory # 20-7849

Bibliographic Details

• Title: FROM RATTLESNAKES TO ROAD AGENTS. Rough Times on the Frio.
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press, Fort Worth, TX
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912646942
• ISBN 13: 9780912646947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: as new
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • CATTLE AND RANCH LIFE
  • WOMEN
  • Texas

About this title

Synopsis

A lively memoir of a girl who grew up in the brush pastures and cotton patches of Frio County, south of San Antonio, during the post Civil War period. Fan Bramlette saw her family survive drouths and floods, neighborhood feuds and Indian attacks.

About the Author

C. L. Sonnichsen (1901-1991) was Benedict Professor of English at the University of Texas, El Paso. Among his many books are "The Mescalero Apaches "and "Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City".

C. L. Sonnichsen (1901-1991) was Benedict Professor of English at the University of Texas, El Paso. Among his many books are "The Mescalero Apaches "and "Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City".