“There
are no county officials in Potter County in the Panhandle of Texas. Better yet,
there are no state officers to interfere with the unalloyed liberty which the inhabitants
of that county enjoy. When any horse thieves or bad characters make their
appearance they are strung up to the cottonwoods.”
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The Violent Land by Wayne D. Overholser
I did not like my father Bartram Nathan. I had never disliked him more than the first day we saw Howard Valley. Those two short sentence...
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There are weird places like that, especially in west Texas where the wind carves craggy reeds of stone and scoops out horns that amplify t...
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This is the 1915 follow-up to her first compendium of letters home Letters of a Woman Homesteader [1914.] [Reviewed in-depth here. ] Thi...
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If you don't know James Reasoner, you're in for a treat, if you do know him and his work, well, it's still mighty enlighteni...
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