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The Santa Claus Bandits
Site of Ratliff’s Lynching This post originally appeared at both the now defunct Home of Heroics site and Adventures Fantastic in December 2011. I’ve updated it a bit and reprinted it. I feel it’s a...
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Candlelight at the Ranch
For one weekend each December, the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock hosts a Christmas event, Candlelight at the Ranch. The Center is a museum and historical park affiliated with Texas Tech...
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas! A familiar sight growing up in Texas was the tin you see on the left. It’s a fruitcake tin from the Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana. That’s south of Dallas, in case you didn’t...
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So, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ll notice that I’ve not posted anything here in quite a long time. (Never mind how long. What are you trying to do, embarrass me?) I’ve had too many irons in...
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Deep Time in Texas
Contrary to what some Texans think, Texas history actually goes back thousands of years before the Alamo. Humans have lived in the Southwest for over ten thousand years, although the exact date of...
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A Visit to the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Pt. 1
Last weekend, my son had an academic competition in Canyon, Texas. The competition was held on the campus of West Texas A&M University. I went along to cheer him and his team on, and while I was...
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Texas Independence Day
It was on this day, March 2, in 1836 that the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Those signing the document included Sam Houston. The declaration established...
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Life and Death on the Border, 1910-1920
Not too long ago, I read about an exhibit at the Bullock State History Museum over at Frontier Partisans. Yes, a guy in Texas heard about an exhibit in Texas from a guy in Oregon. I’ve got to start...
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The Final Resting Place of Doc Scurlock
Josiah Gordon “Doc” Scurlock was born in January 11, 1850 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, and died on July 25, 1929, in Eastland Texas, where he was buried. Scurlock’s claim to fame comes from his...
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Christmas at the Ranch, 2016
Super J Cable Tool Spudder, c. 1930s Every year the National Ranching Heritage Center hosts Christmas at the Ranch, a look back at how Christmas was celebrated on the Texas Plains throughout the years....
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