Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
This handsome book relates the history of a Texas ranch from Comanche days to the present, through the life of one extraordinary man, ninety-year-old Watt Matthews. Laura Wilson's highly readable text speaks clearly and with immediacy about the man, his people, and the land. Throughout the text she allows the Texans to speak in their own voices, summing up pages in pithy witticism. Vignettes of Matthews family history read like a Victorian dime novel: interesting and amazing, truth become legend.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:1 (Winter 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.