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December
2010 Issue
For people who like this sort of thing
This is the sort of thing they
like. |
| Ghost
Town: Camden
Gregg Co Photos courtesy Maryanne Gobble 12-13-10Ghost
Town: Sumpter
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 12-12-10
Trinity
County first county seat | |
| History:
The San Antonio
Council House Fight by Jeffery Robenalt 12-13-10
In
March of 1840, a meeting took place in old San Antonio between representatives
of the government of the Republic of Texas and the Penateka Comanches to discuss
terms of a peace treaty. The disastrous results of this meeting would soon lead
to the Great Comanche Raid of 1840 and the Battle of Plum Creek. |
Column:
Fort Kirby by Mike Cox
12-30-10
In
the spring of 1946, an Army major assigned to desk duty at the Pentagon had his
sergeant call the War Records Office at the National Archives to ask if they had
any information on an old military post in South Texas called Fort Kirby...Trivia:
"Bet You Didn’t
Know" - 12-30-2010 by Peary Perry 12-30-10Town:
Bishop
Nueces Co Photos courtesy Gary L. Oldham, Betty Sue Creech-Perry & William
Beauchamp 12-29-10Column:
New Year’s Non-Resolutions
by Maggie Van Ostrand 12-29-10
It
gets tiresome listing all the things you want to change about yourself but know
in your heart you’re bound to fail. Instead of doing that this year, I’m going
to thank the unsung heroes who invented things that will continue to make life
easier for yet another year... Column:
Discussing
'original primary Age of the Cowboy' by Delbert Trew
12-28-10
Most
historians agree somewhat, the age of the cowboy began in 1866, the first full
year of peace after the Civil War. The end came in about 1895, when the main trails
of the trail drives were closed by barbed wire fences with the railroads taking
over transporting the herds. There is legitimate argument this is not entirely
true...Column:
George Washington’s Execution
by Bob Bowman 12-26-10
When
the Texas prison system plugged in its electric chair in 1924, would you believe
that George Washington was one of the first four men to be executed? Don’t laugh,
it really happened... |
| Town:
Negley
TE's
2600th Town Red River Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 12-24-10 Christmas:
Christmas
is what we choose to make it by Britt Towery 12-24-10
Some
are glad the whole exciting season is almost over, when, in truth, it has actually
just begun. |
Christmas:
Christmas Dinner by Mike
Cox 12-23-10
In
the letter the Galveston News published on Dec. 21, 1893, the former ranger A.
J. Sowell expanded on an incident he had only mentioned briefly in his 1884 book
“Rangers and Pioneers of Texas.” |
Cartoon:
Houston Oilers
by Roger T. Moore 12-22-10Column:
This is why
we dance counter clockwise 12-21-10
As
expected, our question of, "why do we dance western dance around the floor counter
clockwise" generated a varied response. The numerous theories varied from the
sublime to the serious to the ridiculous. Here are a few of the best answers...
Town:
Sebastopol Trinity
Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 12-20-10Christmas:
Christmas Shopping
by Maggie Van Ostrand 12-20-10
Christmas
shopping for me will always be the once-upon-a-time of memory: walking on Fifth
Avenue — it's probably snowing, windows decorated like the fairy tales of
childhood...Food:
Pittsburg’s Hot Links by Bob
Bowman 12-19-10
Few
East Texas foods are as well-known as those spicy sausages, better known as “hot
links,” served at Pittsburg (the one in East Texas). |
Small
Town Saga: Prairie Fire
by Mike Cox 12-16-10
A
raging winter prairie fire, an arsonist, and post Civil War justice in Hunt County.
Town:
Del Valle
Travis Co TGLO vintage map 12-17-10Town:
Old Ocean
Brazoria Co No Photos 12-17-10Town:
Acton Hood
Co Photos courtesy Sam Fenstermacher & Barclay Gibson 12-16-10Christmas
Story: Ducky
Wucky Was Santa to Crazy Frank, Pee Wee, Dirty Gertie and the Rest by Bill
Cherry 12-15-10
Christie
“The Beachcomber” Mitchell told me this story almost fifty years ago. It happened
one Christmas Eve about 1956, just after the War... Cartoon:
Thinking Man by Roger T. Moore
12-15-10Column:
The Duke of Texas by Maggie
Van Ostrand 12-14-10 Column:
Fire, bricks and early
chimneys by Delbert Trew 12-14-10
Few
of the tools needed by man equaled that of fire. He needed it to cook, heat, make
light and to use for making other tools, like in blacksmithing... |
Town:
Easton
Gregg Co / Rusk Co No Photos 12-13-10Homes:
A story of two homes by Bob
Bowman 12-12-10
Two
historic buildings in East Texas made news recently. One story was sad; the other
joyous.Ghost
Town: Oil City Hutchinson
Co Vintage map TGLO No Photos 12-11-10Ghost
Town: Sefcikville
Bell Co No Photos 12-11-10 |
| Town:
Moravia
Lavaca Co Phots courtesy Barclay Gibson 12-11-10Town:
Novohrad
Lavaca Co Vintage map TGLO No Photos 12-11-10Ghost
Town: Bucksnort
Falls Co Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson 12-10-10 |
Town:
Branchville
Milam Co Photos courtesy Tracy Burries-Hall & Erik Whetstone 12-10-10Trivia:
"Bet You Didn’t
Know" - 12-10-2010 by Peary Perry 12-10-10Thing:
Sundial
in San Ygnacio by Mike Cox
12-9-10
The weathered sundial
positioned on top of the arched entrance to the old family fort at San Ygnacio
tells more than the time – it tells a story. Cartoon:
Dec.10, 1928 - Dan
Blocker by Roger T. Moore 12-9-10Architecture:
Shotgun shacks cheap,
practical by Delbert Trew 12-8-10
A
memory or two involving the famous "long skinny houses" that graced the West on
both farms and ranches and later on during the many oil booms and busts. People:
The Sheriff Posses by Bob Bowman
12-8-10
In early East Texas,
it wasn’t unusual for a local sheriff to recruit a posse of men and horses to
run down outlaws and fugitives...People:
A Hero Named Tom by C. F. Eckhardt
12-1-10
They were hunting
what most men who went into the Big Bend country before 1865 were hunting—gold...
Column:
Brownfield's
Riot That Never Was by Mike Cox 12-1-10
In
the summer of 1908 an article with a Fort Worth dateline published in a Sunday
edition of the New York Herald caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt... |
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