Direct Your Letter to the Matador Ranch: A Cowboy's Long Distance Romance with a Cotton Farmer's Daughter - 778

Letters From a Shoebox Tied With Twine Step into the lives of a Tennessee plowboy-turned Texas cowboy and the cotton farmer’s daughter he “cold wrote” a letter to. The relationship they built on paper over a five-year correspondence resulted in her family moving to Motley County, Texas, and was instrumental in merging the cattle ranching and cotton farming cultures in post-Civil War northwestern Texas. D.C. Kieth Jr. was the son of a pioneer and Confederate soldier. With little education but a drive to find a better life, D.C. made a career for himself as a cowboy at the Matador Ranch on the Rolling Plains of Texas. Despite his roving lifestyle and lack of education, he endeavored to ease his loneliness by writing a “letter from an unknown” to a cotton farmer’s daughter, who was recommended to him as a pen pal by a friend. Learn what it was like to be the daughter of a cotton farmer during the Westward Expansion into Texas from the Reconstruction-era South. Imagine writing letters by lantern or firelight on the Texas prairie. The letters, kept by the Keith family for over 130 years, provide personal insight into the push-pull factors of those drawn to the ever-changing edge of civilization, one of hardship and adventure, despair and excitement, resolution and hope. Marisue Burleson Potts grew up on a ranch near Matador, Texas, where her father and grandfather ran herds of Hereford cattle. She is a founding board member of the Motley County Historical Museum, Matador; the Comanchero Canyonlands Museum, Quitaque, Texas; and the Canyonlands Archeological Society of Matador and Quitaque. She is the author of Motley County Roundup: Over 100 Years of Gathering in Texas; Ridgely Greathouse: Confederate, Conspirator, Convict, and Capitalist;and Cowgirls Don’t Cry: A Personal Reflection on a Life Shaped by the Pease River Breaks.
ASIN: 1735660558
VSKU: BVV.1735660558.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Potts, Marisue Burleson
Binding: Paperback