Saturday, December 1, 2012

Texas Cattle Drives BEFORE The Chisholm Trail

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Long before the Texas cattle trails turned north through Fort Worth, Red River Station and Indian Territory to a railhead in Abilene, Kansas...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Whoa! Turns Out That Jesse Chisholm Really Blazed A Trail to Nowhere.. And It Ended Up in South Texas..

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How did Jesse Chisholm's name get on the great cattle trail from south Texas to Abilene, Kansas? Contrary to trail romanticists and ...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

1849: Major Ripley Arnold Speaks Up In Defense of the New Fort on the Trinity

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It is 1849 on the Grand Prairie of Texas, just east of the Cross Timbers on a high bluff overlooking the the confluence of the Clear Fork an...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

1894: A Lost North Fort Worth Map Reveals a Tantalizing Hint ~The Old Road to Azle?

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I love a mystery.  Even a little mystery.  This lost map mystery is really little and in the vast scope of things, insignificant to Fort Wor...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

1917-18: A Hot Time In Old Camp Bowie's "Entertainment" District? Not!

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The moment in 1917 that the deal that cinched Fort Worth as the site of a huge new US Army training post was signed was a moment that change...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Up the Hill: Memories of Ranger Hill on US-80 and the Bankhead Highway

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Old time truckers have many tales of Ranger Hill in the days before Interstate 20 toned things down. It's still quite a hill to climb an...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

A Little History is Passing: The Old Saginaw Airfield Is About Gone

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Things change around us in the blink of an eye. Last July I was headed into Saginaw to have breakfast at JR's. The sun was in my eyes, a...