This is a story of a vast cattle and oil Fortune left hanging by the thread of a widow\'s dying wish; a story of prodigious egos and ambitions competing for the Fortune before the Widow was even buried; a story about a legal battle that has lasted a quarter-century and has swept like a range fire from dusty cow-town courtrooms to the marble halls of the Vatican, pitting captains of industry against princes of the Church.
And if it had happened anywhere other than Texas, you probably wouldn\'.
This is a story of a vast cattle and oil Fortune left hanging by the thread of a widow\'s dying wish; a story of prodigious egos and ambitions competing for the Fortune before the Widow was even buried; a story about a legal battle that has lasted a quarter-century and has swept like a range fire from dusty cow-town courtrooms to the marble halls of the Vatican, pitting captains of industry against princes of the Church
