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Frontier Times Magazine
Vol 3 No. 9 - June 1926
Some names mentioned in this volume:
Prince Albert; Winnie Allen; Mary A. Anderson; Washington Anderson;
Wilson Anderson; John Arden; Don Ramon Arranda; Samuel E. Ashbury; Bill
Baker; Cullen M Baker. Cullen Baker; Dr E. C. Baker ; Melvirda Baker ;
Orren Baker ; William Baker; Anderson Bates; Charley Bates; E. A.
Bates; E. A. (Anderson) Bates; Ellen Bates; Felix Bates; Lee Bates;
Levi Bates; Mary Bates; Meivinda Bates; Millard Bates; Robert Levi
Bates; Tom Bates; W. A. Bates; Lt George W. Baylor; John Walker; Lt
Walker; Alex Bennett; Bill Bennett; Claude Bennett; Hamilton Bennett;
High Bennett; Margaret Bennett; Jess Benton; Ben Bickerstaff; Judge
Bigelow; William Black; Mary E. Blakeney; Louise von Miss Blittersdorf;
G. T. Bludsworth; Daniel Boone; Col Bowers; Doke Bowles; John Bowles;
Brininstool; Dan Brister; Steve Brodie; John Lee Brooks; Henry J.
Brown; Jim Brown; Sheriff Jim Brown; John Brown; Paul Bunyon; Pat Burk;
W. M. Burroughs; William Burrows; P. B. Butler; S. C. Butler; Wm G.
Butler; Caldwell; Sam Calvert; Miles Cantrell; Buford Carputter; Will
Carputter; Capt Adna Chaffee; Father Chambodut; Queen Charlotte; J. M.
Choate; John Claire; Dave Clark; Randolph Clark; Joseph Cluck; Wallace
David Coburn; Gov Coke; Richard Coke; Coldwell; Capt Robert Coleman;
Bob Cook; Dave Cook; James W. Cook; Joseph T. Cook; Joseph T. Cook Sr;
Lucinda Bates Cook; Thalis Cook; Thomas Cook; Samuel Cooper; Juan N.
Cortina; Arch Cox; Josh Cox; Manuel Coy; John Creighton; Col M. L.
Crimmins; Col Martin L. Crimmins; Bettie Croft; Pvt Silas B. Crump; G.
A. Cunningham; Pvt John Cupps; George Washington Parke Custis; Harbert
Davenport; Gov Edmund J. Davis; Jim Day; Pvt Jim Day; Margry
Decourvertes; Wash Delong; T. S. Dennis; Dr Alex Dienst; Pvt Nick
Donnelly; E. M. Dubose; Bull Durham; Paul Durham; Pvt Paul Durham;
Frank Eastwood; Nick Eaton; Capt Z. P. Egleston; Julia Estill; George
Evans; Tom Evans; Dr Fields; Charles J. Finger; Sheriff Finley; King
Fisher; King (See John King); Frank Fountain; Ben Franklin; Gen Gaines;
John Gamel; Capt Garcia; Dr Gasley; Tom Gillespie; Pvt Tom Gillespie;
Capt Gillett; Sgt J. B. Gillett; James B. Sgt; S. H. Gilliland; Will
Grant; Green; James K. Greer; Maj Hardee; Hardin; George Harold; Benard
de le Harpe; Wash Harris; R. C. Prof Harrison; T. F. Harwood; Mattie
Austin Hatcher; Mrs Will C. Havens; Jim Hawkins; ; William E. Hawks;
Clint Haworth; Maj Samuel P. Heintzleman; William Henry; Col A. J.
Houston; ; Gov Hubbard; A. Huffmeyer; ; Mont Hurst; Bill Irvin; Lavinia
Jacks; Mrs J. A. Jackson; Dr Johnson; Tom Johnson; Col Albert Sidney
Johnston; Frank Jones; Sam Jones; William E. Judge; Bud Jordan; George
W. Kendall; Pvt William Kimbrough; John King; W. A. Knox; Gen Lawton;
Rev Roland Lay; Lydia Lea; Mary Curtis; F. H. Lehmann; John Linney; Geo
Little; John A. Lomax; Jane Long; Bill Longley; Cale Longley; Cale
Longley Sr; Campbell Longley; Will Longley; William Longley; William P.
Longley; Mrs A. B. Looscan; Ed Lott; Edd Lott; Will Lott; Capt Jim
Lucy; Pvt Mike Lynch; Prof John W. Mahan; Bill Malone; Black Malone;
Pvt Henry Maltmore; J. A. Martin; lt Capt MiMast; Anton Mazzanovich;
Craig McAda; John B. McDonnell; Archer McKinney; Caroline McKinney;
Felix McKinney; Joe T. McKinney; Julius N. McKinney; Lucien McKinney;
Mahaley Howard McKinney; Mary Pocahontas Cook; Rufus M. McKinney;
Thalis McKinney; Thomas McKinney; Bill McKiver; Johnson McKowen; Capt
W. G. McLennon; Gen McMlellan; Ben Milam; C. I. Mitchell; Joe Mitchell;
Gen George W. Morgan; Paul Morgan; Babe Moye; Sgt Plunk Murray; Lt
Nevill; A. M. Nichols; J. M. Nichols; Jim Nichols; Thomas Nichols;
Frank Oneal; William Patterson; Dr L. W. Payne; Dr Robert Peebles; Buck
Pettus; Eula Peyton; John Pope; Giles Maj Porter ; S. O.Porter ;
Sam Porter; Z. C. Prina; Ben Pulliam; H. W. ("Zude") Pulliam; John
Pulliam; M. B. Pulliam; Need Pulliam; M. M. Quaife; Father Querat; Lt
Radiminski; Dr Charles W. Ramsdell; Fannie Ratchford; John Reagan; Dr
W. S. Red; Paul Revere; Gen J. J. Reynolds; Starke; Vivian Richardson;
Capt Roberts; Capt D. W. Roberts; N. H. Rose; Charles M. Russell; Dr
Edward Sapir; Saunders; Dan Sawyer; Lew Sawyer; Capt Sedbury; Pvt Ed
Seiker; Col Thomas Jefferson Shannon; John Shaw; Lam Sieker; Bruce
Smith; Victor J. Smith; W. D. Smithers; Ike W. Sparks; Sam Sparks; Rev
Father Spillard; Ed Steves; Charlie Stuart; Sgt Swilling; Charlie
Taylor; Creed Taylor; Gen Terrazas; Prof Gates Thomas; George Thomas;
Maj George H. Thomas; John Thomas; Thompson; Alec Thomson; Capt William
G. Tobin; Wm B. Travis; Pvt Jim Trout; E. B. Judge Turner; Gen David
Twiggs; George W. Judge Tyler; W. S. Veck; Queen Victoria; Chief
Victorio; Miss Louise von Blittersdorf; Wallace; Buck Maj Walton; Gen
George Washington; Martha Washington; Lark White; S. G. White; Mrs S.
G. White; Dr G. D. Wilkerson; Andy Wilson; Pvt Andy Wilson; John
Wilson; Eli Wixon; John Wood; Kate Woods; Gen Wool; Gen John E. Wool;
Mrs A. C. Wright; Henry Yelvington; Adina de Zavala; Zarate-Salmeron;
Contents of this volume:
"Injun Fightin" With The Texas Rangers
Events
of this account occurred in Mason Co., in 1875. This is excellent
history of the area and a great account of the Indian pursuits that
followed a raid upon the ranch of early Mason, co. settler and
prominent citizen, John Gamel. Those involved in this important pursuit
were Capt. D. W Roberts, Ranger Company D and the men picked to go with
him were: Second Sergt. Jim Hawkins, Privates Paul Durham, Nick
Donnelly, Tom Gillespie, Mike Lynch, Andy Wilson, Henry Maltmore, Jim
Trout, William Kimbrough, Silas B. Crump, Ed Seiker, Jim Day, John
Cupps, and one other, the author of this account, Srgt. James B.
Gillett. This account has many notable historical details of this part
of Mason co. in 1870’s. Story has old photo of Sqt. J. B. Gill V
Meeting F. H. Lehmann After Forty-nine Years. Lehmann had been captured
by the Indians in Mason county some years before this fight and had
became one of them. He had hidden in the grass while the rangers were
hunting him, and after they had gave up the search and disappeared he
had followed on the trail of the Indians until he rejoined them.
Further
Mentions: Honey Creek; the Frontier Hotel; Sergt. Plunk Murray; San
Saba River near the mouth of Scalp Creek; the Big Saline; the
headwaters of Bear creek; Kickapoo Springs; Tom Gillespie; Jim Day's
Chico; Mike Lynch and Andy Wilson; Paul Durham; old Fort Clark, Texas;
Wash Delong's ranch on the headwaters of the South Concho River; camp
at Las Moras; M. M. Quaife; George W. Baylor; John Walker Baylor; old
Fort Gibson in the Cherokee nation, now the State of Oklahoma; Major
Jones, Captain Coldwell; Captain Roberts, and Lieutenant Reynolds;
Sergeant Swilling; John Thomas; Captain Garcia; Don Ramon Arranda;
Apache Chief Vietorio; General Terrazas; Tres Castillo; 'Los Pinos
Mountains; Eagle Mountains; Diablo Mountains; Fort Quitman.
Reminiscences Of A Texan
SELLER’S NOTE: THIS ACCOUNT ABOUNDS IN RICH GENEALOGY, EARLY
SETTLERS AND NOTABLE HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN AND AROUND
UVALDE COUNTY IN 1860’S AND 70’S.
Joe
T. McKinney. Author’s father was Felix Carroll McKinney. He was a
native of South Carolina and the son of Archer McKinney and Mahaley
Howard McKinney. His mother was Mary Pocahontas Cook McKinney, the
daughter of Joseph T. Cook and Lucinda Bates Cook. Joe T. McKinney was
born in the town of Falcon, Columbia County, Arkansas, June, 2 1858,
and here recounts his experiences in the town of Uvalde, Uvalde co.
where he settled in 1865 and lived in proximity to kin who had
previously settled there. He goes on to relate many details of his life
and events in the area, with numerous names and places mentioned – this
is truly an exceptional first-hand account, rich in details.
Further
Mentions: two brothers, Black and Bill Malone; grandfather, Joseph T.
Cook; , E. A. Bates; Julius N. McKinney; Felix Bates; Mrs. Melvirda
Baker of Hidalgo county, Texas; Mrs. Mary E. Blakeney; mother's uncle,
Dave Cook & sons, Bob and Thalis; the Tortuga; John Bowles and Lark
White; Thomas Cook; Thalis McKinney who married a Miss Kate Woods; The
Woods family had lived on Turkey Creek for several 3 years, which is
between Uvalde and Ft. Clark; Doke Bowles' grocery; Margaret Bennett;
Aunt Caroline McKinney. She was a widow who had lost her husband, Uncle
Thomas, in the Civil War; Grandma Cook's brother, Levi Bates; Hamilton
Bennett, a' widower with several children; Alex, Claude, High, and
Bill; E. A. (Anderson) Bates; James W. Cook; John Pulliam and Tom Evan;
H. W. ("Zude") Pulliam; George Evans; Pulliam lived at Bowie, 24 miles
east of Willcox; the Cox settlement on the Nueces; Miles Cantrell; Old
Josh Cox; Thorp Springs; Randolph Clark; Prof. John W. Mahan; Coryell
county; Anderson Bates & a farm where Batesville, Zavala county,
now stands; cousin, Rufus M. McKinney who had a ranch and cattle on
Clear Fork, about fifteen miles above old Fort Phantom Hill and just
bellow the mouth of Bitter Creek; Bull Head; Paint Rock on the head of
the Llano; Scabtown was on the north bank of the river and on the
opposite side from Fort McKavett; Kickapoo Springs, Lipan Springs, Ft.
Concho, old Ft. Chadbourne; Nick Eaton, Buford and Will Carputter; Mr.
Ferguson, whose brand was C5 on the neck and 61 on the shoulder; Orren
Baker; John Pope, foreman, Nick Eaton; Jess Benton of St. David; Z. C.
Prina; what is called the "Shinnery", on the north side of the Clear
Fork.
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ELECTS
Mentions:
T. F. Harwood of Gonzales; Dr. W. S. Red of Austin; Col. A. J. Houston
of Pasadena; Dr. Alex Dienst, Temple, vice president; Judge George W,
Tyler, Belton, vice president; Dr. E. C. Baker, Austin, recording
secretary, and Dr. Charles W. Ramsdell, Austin ; J. Frank Dobie; James
K. Greer; Samuel E. Ashbury; Herbert Davenport; General George W.
Morgan; Mrs. Mattie Austin Hatcher and Miss Winnie Allen; Dr. Robert
Peebles; Mrs. Jane Long; Mrs. S. G. White of Hempstead;
The Texas Folk-Lore Society
Mentions:
Prof. Gates Thomas of Southwest Texas State Teachers college, San
Marcos; Miss Adina de Zavala and Col. M. L. Crimmins of 'San Antonio
and Mrs. A. B, Looscan of Houston; Victor J. Smith of Alpine, Dr. L. W.
Payne of Austin and Miss Julia Estill of Fredericksburg; Miss Fannie
Ratchford; J. Frank Dobie; John Lee Brooks of Southern Methodist
university of Dallas; Prof. R. C. Harrison; Miss Louise von
Blittersdorf of Austin; G. T. Bludworth of the state department of
education related "The Legend of Caddo Lake; Henry Yelvington of Three
Rivers; Paul Mongan; Dean T. U. Taylor; G. A. Cunningham, Sam Sparks;
John Creighton, Mrs. J. A. Jackson, Mrs. Lydia Lea, Mrs. A. C. Wright
and Miss Eula Peyton.
Six Years With The Texas Rangers
A
Review of Captain Gillett's Book, by Charles J. Finger. Mentions: Bruce
Smith; Sam Bass and Eli Wixon and Starke Reynolds and the Bacas; the
Devil's River country; Captain Gillett and George W. Baylor;
Bill Longley And His Wild Career
This
is an authoritative account of the reknown TX badman whose skill as a
gunslinger is perhaps unsurpassed by all the badmen of the frontier.
The information in this article has been culled from various sources,
the Galveston News, the Austin Statesman, weekly papers of 1875,
quotations from Giddings Tribune, individual acquaintances of Bill
Longley, state records in the office of the Secretary of State and in
the State Library, and many personal friends of the writer. This
lengthy and superb article includes the following subheadings:
- FIRST VICTIM
- FIGHT IN LEXINGTON
- THE EVERGREEN CIRCUS
- BURLESON COUNTY KILLING
- KILLING THE SERGEANT
- WITH CULLEN BAKER
- THE KILLING OF RECTOR
- KILLING THE HORSE THIEF
- KILLING OF THE YANKEE SOLDIER IN LEAVENWORTII.
- KILLING OF QUARTERMASTER GREGGORY.
- KILLING OF CHARLIE STUART
- FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
- KILLING OF NEGRO IN BROWN COUNTY
- LONGLEY'S CAPTURE IN EDWARD'S COUNTY.
- THE KILLING OF A MEXICAN IN FRIO COUNTY
- THE KILLING OF LEW SAWYER ON THE DRY FRIO.
- LONGLEY'S FIRST LOVE AFFAIR
- IN THE TANAHA
- IN BASTROP COUNTY
- KILLING OF WILSON ANDERSON
- KILLING OF GEORGE THOMAS
- KILLING OF REV. ROLAND LAY OF DELTA COUNTY
- A DAUGHTER'S ACCOUNT OF THE KILLING OFT HER FATHER.
- THE CAPTURE OF BILL LONGLEY
- HANGING OF BILL LONGLEY
- TRIAL OF BILL LONGLEY
- A MURDERER CAPTURED
- BY THE SWEAT OF THEIR PENS
- SUMMARY OF CHARACTERISTICS.
- PEACE AT LAST
Further
Mentions: The careers of Cullen M. Baker; Ben Bickerstaff, Bob Lee,
John Wesley Hardin and a reason why these men sprang up in the soil of
post Civil War frontier Texas: racial tension; Campbell Longley, a
devout, God-fearing man; the two Dozier boys; the Nacogdoches-San
Antonio Road, or the Camino Real; Dr. G. D. Wilkerson, who graduated in
medicine but in the early years following the War was a school master
at old Evergreen; Two of the schoolmates of Bill Longley at the old
Evergreen school, Will Grant, of Giddings, and Ike W. Sparks of Austin;
Johnson McKowen; the H. & T. C. railroad; Will Grant, an, old
schoolmate of Longley's; Early in 1868 Bill Longley went west to Karnes
county, where he worked for Mr. John Reagan, a large stock owner of
that county; the Taylor Clan; Cullen Montgomery Baker; the Baker Gang;
General J. J. Reynolds; brother-in-law, John Wilson; a man by the name
of, Charlie Stuart; Boggy depot in the old Indian Territory; Grayson
county; Mr. Dan Sawyer; the ranch of Mr. Forsythe; Gholson 's Ranch in,
Coleman county; the Williams Ranch in Brown county; Frank's Ranch; Joe
Mitchell and Martin; the Santa Anna Mountain fight; Mason county and
Sheriff Finley; Fredericksburg; Gillespie county; Edwards county;
Kerrville; Rock Springs; activity in Frio county; Lew Sawyer was a very
bad man and a very dangerous man; Bill, McKiver, an outlaw; Dave Clark;
Fort Ewell; the land of the Tanaha; Angelina county; He continued
westward to Bastrop county and secured employment a, a field hand on
the farm of William Bakes on Walnut Creek; Jim Brown, the sheriff of
the newly created county of Lee; Longley heard that a cousin of his,
young Cale Longley, had been killed by Wilson Anderson near Evergreen;
Wash Harris; the farm of Captain Sedbury about eight miles above Waco;
the northeast side of the Brazos River about two miles below Chalk
Bluff; the store of Frank Jones; the murder of Reverend Roland Lay;
Mrs. Will C. Havens, now of Ben Franklin, Texas; a neighbor girl by the
name of Lavinia Jacks; Captain Milt Mast of Nacogdoches; W. A. Knox,
district clerk of Lee county; William Burrows of Nacogdoches county;
the I. & G. N. train; Reverend Father Spillard of Austin; Captain
Jim Lucy; Sheriff Jim Brown; Captain Z. P. Egleston; Captain W. G.
McLennon; Chief Deputy Brown; Doctors Gasley, Fields, and, Johnson;
Judge E. B. Turner in Giddings; Alec Thomson. and John Shaw; Clint
Haworth - horse thief and a dozen times a murderer; John King -King
Fisher, he insisted on being called;
The Daddy Of All Hail Storms
A.
Huffmeyer. This fearsome event occurred on the evening of May 19th 1868
in the San Antonio and surrounding area. Hailstones weighed from one
fourth pound to over two pounds each. It started northwest of the city
about Helotes, and took in a stretch of country four or five miles
wide, and spent its force about three miles below the city. There was
absolutely nothing left in its wake. Fields of corn, waisthigh, were
cut down, and all of the fruit trees were trimmed of leaves and fruit,
and the beautiful gardens were beaten into the ground. Thousands of
chickens, turkeys, and birds were killed, dogs, calves, sheep and goats
were also killed, and there wasn't a roof, door or window left on the
north side of the buildings.
Further
Mentions: St. Mary's College; Ed Steves, the father of the present
owner of the Stevens lumber yards; Also mentions a couple of other
notable hailstorm in the region.
The Border Command
Col.
Martin L. Crimmins. This story chronicles the time that Robert E. Lee
spent in Texas, including numerous accounts of his correspondence to
wife and relatives in Virginia and his feelings about the place and
people.
Further
Mentions: General John E. Wool; the Rio Grande river near the Presidio
'of San Juan Bautista; Saltillo; Monclova, Mexico; Major Hardee;
Colonel (Albert Sidney) Johnston; Mr. Radiminski; Oteys Creek in Jones
County; Camp Cooper; Major George H. Thomas at Fort Mason; Ringgold
Barracks; his old friend, Major Giles Porter; two Texas lawyers, a
Judge Bigelow and a Colonel Bowers; Mr. and Mrs. Monod; General
McClellan; Mary Custis Lee; General David Twiggs; Juan N. Cortina, the
Mexicans bandit; Captain. William G. Tobin, of San Antonio; Major
Samuel P. Heintzleman; the "Hostelry" kept by Mrs. Phillips in San
Antonio;
Old Cowmen Tell Of A Big Steal
Related by A. M. Nichols to S. C. Butler.
The
following unusually interesting account of a happening in Kenedy,
Karnes County, Bee county, Goliad and Atascosa Co in March 1875. It was
then that a man by the name of Frank Fountain and about thirty cowboys,
came in quietly on San Antonio river and Escondido creek. The men
spread out, fanlike, up the creek. and drove out all the cattle that
could be found within that radius. By daybreak the next morning they
came together a few miles above where the town of Kenedy is now
located. The rustlers had herded together a bunch of cattle to the
number of some 9000 head, and which they proceeded to drive on west.
When the true owners of the cattle arrived, they determined to cut
their cows from the herd. The account goes on to describe what happens
next and subsequent events. Good history of the area including many
names and early ranch info.
Further
Mentions: Bill Irvin, a cattleman of Atascosa county; Wm. G. Butler;
Sam Calvert; J. M. Nichols, who was then living about one mile south of
the present town of Kenedy; J. M. Choate, P. B. Butler, S.O. Porter;
Buck Pettus and Edd Lott, John Wood, John Claire, Pat Burk, John Linney
and other Bee co. cattlemen; J. A. Martin, Geo. Little, Craig McAda,
Frank Oneal; the Butler camp on the Conquista, 5 miles south of where
the town of Falls City is located; Manuel Coy; Uncle Dan Brister's, on
the Lapann creek; the Oiler herd; was Buck Pettus, Ed and Will Lott,
John Linney, Sam Porter, John Wood, John Claire, Bud Jordan, Babe Moye;
the Brister ranch;
J. Frank Dobie Digs For Texas Legends
Excellent account of this master Texas Historian and his work.
"Thirty-one mule loads of silver it was, and they buried it there by a live-oak tree-"
But did they?
Four hundred years ago English grandmothers whispered many stories
of Robin Hood, but they whispered no stranger or more numerous tales
than are told today of buried treasure in Texas.
It takes Professor J. Frank Dobie, secretary of the Texas Folk-lore
society and English instructor in the University of Texas, who has dug
on many a hill for buried treasure and traveled thousands of miles to
gather new legends, to tell the story right. From the palm trees along
the Rio Grande to the bleak prairies of the Panhandle, there are
doubloons and Spanish gold, silver bars and lost mines, and if you'll
dig in a certain hill where a certain tree leans to the east-so the
people say. But "In one Texas town there is more color of legend and
history than can be found in the whole state of Iowa," Professor Dobie,
who has had as many exciting experiences as perhaps characterized
Coronado's expedition to America during the years he has spent
gathering legends, said. "The southwest, particularly rich in such
material because of its Spanish background, literally abounds in lost
mines and buried treasures if legends could be relied upon as facts,"
Further
Mentions: the story of Tumlinson; the J. M. Dobie ranch in LaSalle
county; 800 Mexican dollars having been found under a mesquite tree in
Atascosa county many years ago; I know of about 400 dollars in Mexican
coin that were rooted up by hogs in Frio county 40 years ago,"; While
excavators were preparing the foundation of new buildings on Soledad
street in San Antonio, several hundred dollars in silver was found,
according to old residents of the city; Prejean and Moutons two Cajan
farmers; the lost San Saba or Bowie Mine; Live Oak County, Texas; John
A. Lomax and Dr. L. W. Payne;
The Famous Runaway
Account
of Mrs Mary A. (Glasscock) Anderson surviving widow of noble Texas
veteran, Mr. Washington Anderson Austin. Account details her travels to
Texas with her parents siblings and number of slaves after a troublous
8-day voyage which finally ended on the gulf when they landed at the
mouth of the Brazos River in 1835. Further describes settling in
Williamson county where they established a grist and sawmill on Brushy
Creek, in the vicinity of Round Rock.
Further
Mentions: Captain Coleman; Judge William E. Jones; Webberville; husband
was one of the commissioners who laid out the original town site of
Georgetown; Mr. Joseph Cluck;
The Tonkawe Tribe
Colonel M. L. Crimmins. In
1884 the Tonkawe were moved to the Oakland Reserve, in the northern
part of Indian Territory. In 1890 they consisted of a conglomerate of
tribal remnants, who varied considerably in size, conformation and even
in language, and only one of the thirteen totemic gentes were known as
"genuine Tonkawes." They only had 78 members at that time. The Tonkawes
were anthropiephagists in the early days, but they usually ate
prisoners of war of other tribes, expecting by so doing to deprive the
dead of the possibility of living a second life and taking revenge.
They state that human flesh tastes like bear meat.
How Texas Got Durham Stock
Account
of Colonel Thomas Jefferson Shannon, who prairieschoonered his way into
the vast and howling wilderness in the days of headrights and the
buffalo. He is largely remembered by the old timers of the State as the
man who introduced the Red Durham strain into the cattle business of
the West if not the entire country.
The
Red Durham strain is the breed immortalized in our era by the well
known Bull Durham advertisements. It gradually replaced the standard
Texas longhorn and fortunes were made by the ranchmen who bred it.
A WEST TEXAS PIONEER.
Brief
account of M. B. Pulliam, of San Angelo, who came to Tom Green county
in 1876 when buffaloes roamed the territory, Mr. Pulliam located his
ranch three miles from the city on the North and Middle Conchos. He was
here when John Arden brought the first sheep into the country from
California in 1877. In 1878 Mr. Pulliam lost, twenty-four saddle horses
stolen by the Indians
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