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I read your glowing comments re: Mona Sizer’s book about my family’s history and wish to comment that if you use her “history” as fact, there are many inaccuracies in the telling. Relationships within the family, descriptions and attributions are misstated or wrong. For accuracy in historic fact I commend to you that the REAL history of King Ranch still remains the two volume tome written by Tom Lea in 1955 and updated by Bill Broyles in Texas Monthly (The Last Empire) in their Feb. 1980 issue.
Among other inaccuracies in the book are that Mrs. King did not have a mesquite tree painted on the wall of the library of the newly rebuilt main house at the ranch in the early 20th century. That was put there in the 1980’s at the time of a restoration project of the main house overseen by my mother, Mary Lewis Kleberg, and assigned to an artist/decorator from San Antonio, Tilford Collins. It was Tilford who’s idea it was to paint the alcove and use a mesquite as a vehicle for a family tree.
Other inaccuracies are reference to a cousin of mine who became President of King Ranch after Bob Kleberg’s death as Bob’s son-in-law. Jim was Bob’s nephew by marriage. Other inaccuracies pepper the narrative throughout. The hunting car referred to as Bob’s and Dick’s was NEVER Bob’s. It was custom designed and built for my grandfather, Dick Kleberg, Sr. Bob had nothing to do with it and rarely was in it as he preferred staying down at the Norias division of the ranch to camp out and hunt or preferred traveling to foreign countries in the airplane at company shareholder expense including taking his daughter and her 6 children on safari in Africa while my father stayed on the ranch and ran the place so Bob could travel without worry.
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