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Alpine Chronicle Notes A Season of Travel and Local Arrivals
A long, rambling Alpine area diary records weather contrasts and numerous visits. Local residents such as Mrs C A Brown Mule afece Mainelie, Mr and Mrs Townsend, and Mrs Averett are mentioned among many who traveled to San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth. The piece recounts a ranching shift, visitors from San Antonio to El Paso, and a weekend gathering at the hot springs with diverse Alpine residents and guests from Marathon, Study Butte, and Me Camey, plus a boatload of family outings and cactus hunts in Boquillas Terlingua country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buttrill
Alpine
Milam Harrison
Emmett Strawn
Foster
Ray Spence
D. Wood
Marathon
la Hus Buttril
K. B. Kendrick
Louie Ritchey
Eon
Clinton
Mecamey
Mra. Clark
Brownfield
Hight
Study Butte
A. C. Spalding
A. F. Robinson
Mary Beth