"Ferber's sweeping novel about cattle, oil, and the winds of change brought a reform-minded Virginia woman, Leslie Benedict, to a Texas ranch, where she has the temerity to suggest that the denizens might treat their nonwhite, non-male neighbors a little better."
"Carl Victor Little in his Houston Press review suggested that she be lynched, dismissing Ferber's 'brand of fiction' as steeped in backstairs gossip and what girl-novelists call local color."
"Through her heroine, who comes to the Reata ranch when she marries the longtime cattleman Jordan 'Bick' Benedict, the author imagined a transformation that Texans of a certain stripe dream of to this day, and she knew that it would be an uphill battle."
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