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Contents Galleries of illustrations follow the genealogy and chapters , , and . Genealogy of the Hawkinses, Alstons, and Rugeleys ix Introduction 1 I. Plantation Beginnings 1. North Carolina Roots 15 2. Letters Written en Route 19 3. Starting the Caney Sugar Plantation 24 4. Ariella and Plantation Family Life 32 5. The Case of Edgar and Ways of Thought in Slavery Times 39 6. Building the Ranch House (Lake House) 49 7. Effects of Civil War and Emancipation 55 8. Frank Hawkins and the Development of Cattle Ranching 61 9. Ariella's Fight for Her Rights 69 II. Young Lady Ranchers 10. A Birth, a Death, and the Move to Tonw 77 11. Schooling and a House of Their Own, 1913 81 12. Young Lady Ranchers in Charge, 1917 88 13. Courtship and Marriage 93 14. Lizzie 97 15 . The Conversations in the Family, 1935 107 16. Janie and Harry 112 17. Sister and Esker 121 18. Meta and Jim 125 19. Rowland and Daughty 128 20. The Lady Visitor and the Decision 131 21. The Ranch House and Mr. Norcross 136 viii contents III. The Instruction of Town and Country 22. The Courthouse Square and Depot 145 23. The Alley Way 151 24. Miss Tenie 158 25. Good People on the Place 165 26. Frank Hawkins Lewis, Cattleman 178 27. The Future of the Sense of Place 187 Acknowledgments 195 Appendix. Sketches and Letters of the Antebellum Children 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 219 Index 223 ...

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