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    THE PEOPLE

    Nov 05, 2019 4 minutes

    or sheer scope and richness of incident, neither “Dallas” nor “Downton Abbey” have anything on The King Ranch. Its saga has been the subject of one motion picture (“Giant,” 1956, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean, with screenplay adapted from Edna Ferber’s 1952 novel), but neither that movie nor this report could possibly bring a full portrayal. Tom Lea, Robert M. Denhardt, Richard M. Kleberg, Jr., Helen Kleberg Groves with Anne and Tobin Armstrong, Mona Sizer, Don Graham, J.W. Williams and several others have written histories, and the interested reader can also turn to the official websites of the King

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