Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 151 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
My Early Days -- My First Paying Job -- I Head West -- A Runaway Wife -- I Land in the Duke's City -- Parker Kidnaps Anita -- Into the Rooming-House Business -- I Marry My Second Husband -- I Realize My Big Ambition -- Running Two Ranches -- Whiskey-Making and the Bishop's Visit -- Getting Along with the Neighbors -- Winters Alone -- Cowboys and Cattle Drives -- Single Again -- Adventures Trucking -- I Build a Roadhouse -- Adventures of a Deputy Sheriff -- Turkey Farming -- I Try Real Estate -- In Taos with Doughbelly Price -- Taos People and How I Stretched the City Limits -- My Circle Expands -- I Build on South Santa Fe Highway |
Summary |
The story of a woman who made her life in New Mexico--a determined, ingenious entrepreneur whose career and personality defy every stereotype about women |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Nunnery, Frances Minerva, 1898-1997.
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SUBJECT |
Nunnery, Frances Minerva, 1898-1997 fast |
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Women ranchers -- New Mexico -- Biography
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Ranch life -- New Mexico
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Ranch life
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Women ranchers
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New Mexico -- Biography
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New Mexico
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collective biographies.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Dawkins, Cecil, 1927-2019
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ISBN |
9780826328533 |
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0826328539 |
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1283635135 |
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9781283635134 |
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661394758X |
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9786613947581 |
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