Used in very good condition: cover has wear; pages have light usage wear and are lightly discolored.
Leslie Benedict arrives at Reata ranch, a bride of only a few days. There is the fifty-room house in the midst of rain and heat; the filth of the Mexican dwellings; the herds of cattle, much better cared for than their Mexican cowboys. There are the neighbors, the nearest one ninety miles away, and there is Luz Benedict, her husbands unmarried sister, betrothed to the ranch and mistress of the big house.
The enormity of it all, and the conflict with Luz, stun this bookish girl from the east. Two children are born to the Benedicts, a boy as un-Texan as it is possible to be, and a girl who rides with the best of them yet is of a different and more modern generation of Texans.
Slowly the mystery of Texas penetrates Leslie’s mind, as she watches her children grow and the ranch shrink, threatened by the new get-rich-quick catalyst, oil. Her love for her husband lasts through it all, the one permanent, sustaining thing she found in this strange world.
