Alkali Parched Riders and the Pecos Country Legend
By J Frank Dori recounts early Crockett and Tom Green era life around Tail Holt and Ozona. It traces the Pecos River’s harsh, forbidding reaches from Devils River westward, noting cow towns, roping contests, pioneers like Claude Hudspeth, Clay McGon, and John Chisholm, and legends of Roy Bean and the Pecos frontier’s lawless image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Frank Dori
Devils River
Crockett County
Ams
Tail Holt
Devite
Onona
Old Hornhead
Pecos
Claude Hudspeth
Clay McCronneill
Deatte
Real Estate Bargains Amid Rock Bottom Prices
For sale opportunities emphasize land and city property as values are at their lowest, with investors urged to buy now and sell when prices peak. The message promises many properties to choose from and capitalizes on favorable market conditions.
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Our advertisement offers patented land in Brewster County with full mineral rights including oil and gas, promising strong speculation in the Quicksilver belt. It lists 10900 acres at 2.15 per acre with cash of 15000 and balance paid annually at six percent interest. The title is claimed perfect with no debt or leases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewster County
Pecos cattle thefts mark end of an era in Texas
The Pecos region's open range era gave way to cattle thefts as cowboys shifted from maverick bravado to outright theft. The article recalls range conditions opening to the Rio Grande, drifting fences, and branding lapses along the Pecos that enabled mass cow losses. It frames the last wholesale cattle thefts as a defining closing act in a storied cattle country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude
Aly
Clay McGor
Texas
Clay
Jor Gardner
Ison "Carroll
Poe
Southwest
Claude Hudapeth
Atte
Pecos
Peoce
Rio Grande
Te Head
New Mexico
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Alpine
Emeniine
Leanne
America
Ain
Trans-Pecos
Gay
Roswell
Carlsbad
Avin
Walla
Mt Contore
Sulla
Calfornia
Chisholm
Goodnight and Loving
Koramnen
Horeehead
West Texas
Roy Bean
Comstock
Atty
John Chisholm
Old Port Sumner
Texas Line
Lincoln County
Billy the Kid
Tunstall-McSween
Lincoln
St. Vail Aneral Building Tractor
Mid
Alpine, Texas
W. van Sickle
Attress
Horawana
Odell Brothers
Tine Lodge
R.A. Wade
W. M
Slight
CE. Patterson
Tove
Pat-Law
A.M. Turney
Court House Alpind, Texas
Crawford Insurance Agency
Tohn Hagelstein
John Perkins I Holland Hotel
Baliéing
Alpina, Texas
Ohn Young Land Co
T. C. Selvig
Uwreckem
Adorn, Conmae
Otis Turner
U. A. Beard
Loor
Fisher Drug Store
First National Bank
First Investment CO
Orrio
Hoo
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Uncle Sam
Central Power and Light Company
Power and Light Company
Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
AL Power
Srownsville
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