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1. Caro, Means of Ascent, xxxii-xxxiv; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 298-348; Eric Goldman, The Crucial Decade—and After: America, 1945-1960 (New York: Random House, 1961), 4-5, 12-15; David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992).
2. Caro, Means of Ascent, 398-401; Conkin, Big Daddy, 121; Edwin C. McReynolds, Oklahoma: A History of the Sooner State (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), 389-92.
3. Walter Jenkins in Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 141; Conkin, Big Daddy, 121; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 380.
4. Caro, Means of Ascent, 80-118; Conkin, Big Daddy, 110-14; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 246-52, 409-11.
5. Paul H. Douglas in Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 147; Conkin, Big Daddy, 119-21; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 379.
6. Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 150; Conkin, Big Daddy, 129-31; Edwin C. Bearss, "Historic Resource Study: Lyndon B. Johnson and the Hill Country 1937-1963" (Santa Fe: National Park Service, 1984), Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers # 3, 51-53; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 389-94.
7. Conkin, Big Daddy, 124; Caro, Path to Power, 477-92; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 408-409.
8. Conkin, Big Daddy, 121-22.
9. Edwin C. Bearss, "Historic Structure Report: The Texas White House, Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Texas," (Santa Fe: National Park Service, 1986), Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers # 4, # 5; Mrs. Lyndon B. (Lady Bird) Johnson, interview by Elizabeth Hulett, February 3, 1993, NPS Oral History tape 457:1, Park Library, LBJNHP, 2; Dugger, Politician, 68-69; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 33.
10. Lady Bird Johnson, interview, February 3, 1993, 3. Mrs. Johnson's account is a little more subdued than most of the others. In the 1993 interview, she suggests that Lyndon Johnson told her he wished to buy the house on the way back from the ranch. While she avers that his decision to buy it without consulting her was "no way to behave for a husband who wants peace and smooth sailing . . . when [she] saw how much he cared about it, [she] just couldn't raise a ruckus." See also Dugger, Politician, 46; J. Roy White, interview by Konrad Kelley and Edwin C. Bearss, June 6, 1978, SPMA Oral History Collection, LBJNHP, 315:1.
11. Conkin, Big Daddy, 123; Bearss, "Texas White House," 5; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 408.
12. Conkin, Big Daddy, 123; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 408-409.
13. Elizabeth "Liz" Carpenter, "The Story of the LBJ Ranch and Home," draft, n.d., White House Social Files (WHSF), Liz Carpenter's Files, Box 69, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library (LBJ Library), Austin; Liz Carpenter, "The Story of the LBJ Ranch and Home," cursive type, n.d., WHSF, Liz Carpenter's Files, Box 69, LBJ Library, Austin; "Deposition of R. G. Bouldin dated Feb. 12, 1904," Cause No. 773, Elizabeth Power et. al. vs. A. M. Benner et. al., WHSF, Liz Carpenter's Files, Box 69, LBJ Library, Austin; Fehrenbach, Lone Star, 190-215, 247-67; David J. Weber, The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest under Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982), 176-79; 242-55. Bearss, "Texas White House," 1, gives the "Rachael" spelling for Means's First name.
14. Weber, Mexican Frontier, 158-62, 178; Carpenter, "Story of the LBJ Ranch," cursive type.
15. Fehrenbach, Lone Star, 298-302; Graves, Goodbye to a River.
16. Carpenter, "Story of the LBJ Ranch," cursive type; Elise Kowert, "Chain of Title to that Portion of Sur. No. 6, Rachel Means, Situated in Gillespie County, Texas," July 14, 1965, WHSF, Liz Carpenter's Files, Box 69, LBJ Library, Austin.
17. Carpenter, "Story of the LBJ Ranch," cursive type; Fehrenbach, Lone Star, 291-95; Dugger, Politician, 39-40.
18. Carpenter, "Story of the LBJ Ranch," cursive type; Bearss, "Texas White House," 1. For a more general description of backwoods Texas life, see Fehrenbach, Lone Star, 298-302, and Graves, Hard Scrabble. For a general view of the travails of preindustrial agricultural life, see John Ise, Sod and Stubble: The Story of a Kansas Homestead (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1938). For the impact on American agriculture, see Daniel, Breaking the Land, and Worster, Dust Bowl.
19. Bearss, "Texas White House," 2.
20. Carpenter, "Story of the LBJ Ranch," cursive type; Bearss, "Texas White House," 2. Bearss gives Mrs. Meier's name as "Wilhelmina," but the Meiers' daughter Clara is quoted in Carpenter referring to her mother as "Anna."
21. Bearss, "Texas White House," 2-3.
22. Ibid., 3.
23. Leonard Pitt, The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 18 46-1890 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966); William E. DeBuys, Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985); Victor Westphall, Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983); Hal K. Rothman, On Rims and Ridges: The Los Alamos Area Since 1880 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992); G. Emlen Hall, The Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800-1933 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984); Arnoldo De León, They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983); Fehrenbach, Lone Star, 283-84, 510-11.
24. Bearss, "Texas White House," 3-4.
25. Ibid., 4.
26. Ibid., 5.
27. Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 408; Dugger, Politician, 356-58; Conkin, Big Daddy, 123-24.
28. George Reedy, interview, AC 84-40, LBJ Library, Austin, 20-21; Bearss, "Texas White House," 7; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 406-408; Conkin, Big Daddy, 123-24.
29. Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 408; Caro, Path to Power, 109-10, 149-53, 198-200, 449, 665-66. Caro, Means of Ascent, 9-10, 122-24, advances the professional son argument. Conkin, Big Daddy, does not really address this facet of Johnson's character in any detail.
30. Elspeth Rostow in Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, 403; Caro, Path to Power, 334, 339, 423-44, 494, 704; Caro, Means of Ascent, 136-40,194-206; Conkin, Big Daddy, 146, 192; Dallek, Lone Star Rising, 155, 301-302, 406-407.
31. Lyndon Johnson to Rebekah Baines Johnson, August 1, 1958, Family Correspondence, Sam Houston Johnson, Box 2, LBJ Library, Austin; Adrian A. Spears to Senator and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, September 5, 1953, Senate Political Files, 1949-61, Box 12, LBJ Library, Austin.
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