Indians, Cattle, Ships, and Oil: The Story of W. M. D. Lee

by Donald F. Schofield and Donald F Schofield

Book Overview

Indian trader, rancher, harbor developer, oil impresario-these are the many worlds of one of the least chronicled but most fascinating characters of the American West. In the early, bustling years of the frontier, a brazen young man named William McDole Lee moved from Wisconsin to Kansas and then to Texas to forge a life for himself. Becoming a driving entrepreneurial force in Texas's development, Lee soon garnered the alliances and resources necessary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292744897
• ISBN13: 9780292744899
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"