Oil, taxes, and cats : a history of the DeVitt family and the Mallet Ranch
When David M. DeVitt died in 1934, both of his sons having tragically predeceased him, the future of his estate and the West Texas ranch he had founded in 1895 seemed precariously in question. Yet Christine DeVitt, the elder surviving daughter, was determined to prove herself a worthy heir and to look out for the interests of her mother and her younger sister Helen. Set on assuming her father's active interest in the Mallet Ranch, Christine soon became a woman in a man's world
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