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Bio
Clay Coppedge is a regular contributor to Texas Co-op Power magazine.
His work has also appeared in Acres USA, Elysian Fields Quarterly,
Field and Stream, Gulf Coast Golfer, Texas Fisherman and other magazines
and newspapers. He has worked as a sports editor in Williamson County
and as a reporter for the Temple Daily Telegram as well as stints
as a cab driver, busboy and other jobs too odd to mention. He lives
and writes near Walburg in Williamson County.
February,
2008 |
The
Not So Great Cowboy Strike of 1883 12-5-14
Thurber,
Texas 11-1-14
Miss
Bettie Brown and Haunting of Ashton Villa 10-12-14
Sweetwater
Swatter 9-15-14
Tex
Avery 8-14-14
The
Saga of Texas Iron 7-8-14
Red
River Expedition 6-6-14
Soapy
Smith 5-10-14
Terraqueous
Transportation 4-6-14
A
Fiddler’s Redemption 3-1-14
The
First State Fair of Texas 2-17-14
A
Dalliance to Remember 1-19-14
The
Curious Saga of R.G. Dyrenforth 1-8-14
Ill
Fated Nolan Expedition 12-4-13
Ben
K. Green 11-2-13
Juan
Seguin: A foreigner in his native land 10-2-13
Neighbors
Expedition 9-6-13
Clyde
Barrow, motorist 8-2-13
Peyote
Gardens 7-6-13
Steel
Dust 6-16-13
The
opium war, Texas style 5-11-13
Pat
Garrett 4-9-13
Bullet
Riddled Buddies 2-1-13
Frontier
Journalism in Texas 1-3-13
The
Bone Wars 11-30-12
Albert
Pike in Comancheria 11-18-12
Sally
Skull 11-1-12
The
Alleged Battle of Bandera Pass 10-3-12
A
Snakebitten Legacy 9-17-12
The
Oilman and the Sea 9-3-12
Sam
Bell Maxey 8-18-12
Wilson
Pottery 8-4-12
The
Ranger Formerly Known as Pidge 7-22-12
Trick
‘Em and Skin ‘Em 7-2-12
Kit
Carson at Adobe Walls 6-16-12
Hello,
Sucker 6-6-12
Tex
Thornton: King of the oilfield firefighters and rainmaker 5-1-12
Frederick
Law Olmsted 4-13-12
The Big Boom of 1882 3-9-12
Desdemona 1-27-12
William F. Drannan told it like it wasn’t 1-9-12
Creed
Taylor 12-9-11
“The
Great Western” 11-4-11
Bone
Haulers 10-3-11
Comancheros
9-4-11
Max
Hirsch, Healer and Winner 8-8-11
Turkeys
and Tenderfeet 7-8-11
Ferdinand
Lindheimer 4-12-11
Fruit
Tree Ramsey 3-22-11
Custer
in Texas 2-23-11
Bose
Ikard 2-1-11
Pig
War 1-1-11
Frontier
Doctors 10-15-10
John F. Webber and Gail Borden
LBJ
and Sad Irons 9-10-10
Slats
Rodgers 8-20-10
Ice
in Summer 8-6-10
Blind
Man’s Town 7-20-10
Texas
Mormons 6-11-10
Eck
Robertson 5-19-10
Sally
Rand and Yesterday's ‘House of Tomorrow’ 5-1-10
Pancho
Villa 4-15-10
Champ
D’Asile 3-1-10
Dueling
2-24-10
Jean
Laffite 1-1-10
Ned
Green 12-24-09
George
Kendall 12-1-09
Vin
Fiz Flyer 11-19-09
Temple
Houston 11-1-09
Dance
Pistols 9-21-09
The
Horse Marines 9-7-09
Alex
Sweet and His Siftings 8-26-09
Roy
Crane and Captain Easy 7-31-09
Blast
From The Past: The Houston Colt 45s 6-19-09
The
Legendary Stardust Cowboy 6-3-09
Bozo
Texino 5-2-09
Marx
Brothers 4-1-09
Texas
Cherokees 3-16-09
Life
and Times of James Coryell 2-3-09
Doak
Good 1-15-09
In
Praise of the Unappreciated Mule 1-2-09
The
Reindeer of Texas 12-1-08
Thanksgiving
as a Texas Thing 11-19-08
Mance
Lipscomb 10-18-08
Granger
Through The Years 10-3-08
How
To Mangle Friends and Influence Coaches 9-11-08
Gideon
Lincecum: King of Texas’ Wild Frontier 8-24-08
Little
One-Hearted Stock Tank 8-12-08
With
A Pit Bull On My Knee 7-24-08
The
Unholy Catfish 7-10-08
Fly
Fishing Is Not Always Pretty 6-23-08
Tom
Slick 6-1-08
Bats
5-5-08
Old
Bill and Handsome Wolf 4-7-08
The
Plight of the Pleurocoeleus 3-17-08
Dinosaurs in Texas
Goodrich
Jones: The best friend Texas trees ever had 3-6-08
Avisadores:
Messengers of Light 2-18-08
The
Killer and Me 2-3-08
Sanctified
Sisters 11-7-07
Yoko
on the Llanos 10-21-07
The
Trials and Tribulations of El Kabong 10-5-07
A
Man Named Pink 9-18-07
Ode
to the Oleo Strut 9-3-07
Loco
on the Llanos 8-16-07
Lubbock
Lights and UFOs 8-7-07
King
of the Hill 7-15-07
White
Lightning 6-30-07
South
Llano River State Park 6-15-07
Acres
and Acres of Acres 6-1-07
The Hill Country State Natural Area
The
Life and Times of Whitey Walker 5-1-07
From
Patty Hearst to Salado 4-16-07
What
Stanley Walker Saw 2-16-07
Texas'
Most Civilized Soul 2-1-07
Roy Bedichek
Historic
Joe Lee 1-22-07
Zipperlandville,
and Other Places 1-3-07
Mother
Neff State Park: Texas' first 12-8-06
Colorado
Bend: It Is What It Is 11-21-06
Lanky
and the POWs 11-8-06
Mildred "Lanky" Lancaster
Flowers
For Sarah Herndon 10-12-06
Haunted
Hill 10-5-06
A
Classic Walk on The Wild Side 9-21-06
Sam
Bass: The Not So Merry Bandit 9-13-06
In
Praise of Texas Corn 8-22-06
The
Texas Longhorn: Shaped By Nature 8-7-06
The
Life and Times of Big Bill Babb 7-18-06
Jesse
James, Supposedly 7-3-06
The
Chisholm Trail Rides Again 6-11-06
Westphalia
Waltz 5-30-06
Yalgo,
the legendary horse 5-17-06
The
Old Bartlett Western Railroad 4-27-06
Folk
Medicine 4-11-06
Life,
death and dog-trot houses 3-11-06
Kempner
2-23-06
Phantom
Alligators 1-21-06
FM
2843 1-1-06
FM
116: In The Shadow of Fort Hood 12-9-05
Horny
Toad Hypnosis 11-17-05
John
Trlica 11-1-05
Windmills
10-16-05
Bird's
Creek 9-28-05
Tonkawa
Tales 8-26-05
Joe
Tex 8-4-05
Salt
of the South 7-15-05
Taking
Dead Aim in Izoro 7-1-05
George
Sessions Perry 6-15-05
The
Eerie Demise of Johnny Horton 5-26-05
Killer
Vultures 5-10-05
Groovin'
at The Grove 4-1-05
Metheglin
Creek 2-22-05
Name
of This Town Rings A Bell
Ding Dong, Texas 1-16-05
Legends
of the Pancake Mine 1-1-05
The
Most Famous Bathtub in Coryell County 12-15-04
Never
another like Bill Pickett 12-1-04
Major
Butt and the Titantic 11-15-04
Good
old New Corn Hill 10-29-04
Ol'
Paint's ride started in Bartlett 10-15-04
Renaissance
Man of Buckholts 9-28-04
PRAIRIE
DELL
Tranquil setting belies past 9-24-04
The
Hobo of Little River-Academy
© Clay Coppedge
Column began August, 2004 |
Subject: Clay
Coppedge
I laughed as I learned from Mr. Clay's recent article on Pat Garrett.
I'd have to describe his style as hilarious history, or maybe historical
hysteria, or perhaps historical hilarity...at any rate, the man is
funny. - Frances
Giles |
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