Number 6

Volume 1 - Number 6

A Cowhand from Click
by Cora Melton Cross.
"I can't think of anything that gives me more pleasure today than I used to get rounding up longhorns in the spring with everything green and pretty. Or following the trail in the fall when the leaves were most as bright as flowers. A brazen sky with a sun like clanging brass and the earth cracked and glowing like tiles of beaten copper. Miles of dust, heat-tortured air; a sky white as bleaching bones and rocky ridges where gnarled oaks spread their branches low along the ground to hoard the cool root soil and lift their leaves for light and strength."

When The Nickle Was King by Bill Bridges.
"New York newspaperman Ed Wallace—an avid chili lover—claimed that during the Depression, "the five cent bowl of chili saved more lives than the Red Cross". He might have added, that free saltine crackers and tomato ketchup also played their nutritious parts. Not those anemic cellophane-wrapped packets of crackers universally used in food establishments these days, but the generous bowlsful that used to sit along the counters and on the tables of diners, chili parlors and hamburger joints all over the country."

The Bloody Hand Prints of Alice Todd Part 2 of 2 Parts
by Lemon Squeezer Published in San Saba, Texas 1900
"Away back in the early sixties when a Redskin lurked in every brushy hollow and when men and women went horseback to church, often times fifteen miles away, when everybody knew everybody else, and when everyone was a true neighbor -- it was then our story began."
Save the image (left) as wallpaper: click on the image and follow instructions. (From the private collection of Ira Kennedy.)

The Second Battle of the Alamo
by Charlie Eckhardt.
"A young woman named Clara Driscoll, whose grandfather, Daniel Driscoll, was a San Jacinto veteran, returned to Texas after having spent seven years in school in Europe. Clara, in Europe, was impressed with the way Europeans preserved and protected their historical sites, and when she saw the condition of the Alamo chapel and the land on which the Alamo battle was fought, she was furious..."

Wallpaper by Ira Kennedy
Here are two new Wallpaper photos taken on ranches I once lived on. On the left is a pic on the stock tank on the Whitman Ranch in Burnet County; and on the right a scene of the stock tank on the XLN Ranch near Enchanted Rock. Click on the image to download.