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Talk Of Texas. Inventor Receives No Credit
The piece profiles Ole Ringness a Norwegian Texas immigrant who conceived a disc plow and disc barrow in Bosque County. He died in New York before patenting, leaving the invention later patented by J I Case. Also recalls the origin of journey cake and Rev L A Garrison’s evangelizing from 1879 to 1899 including the vanished settlement named Purgatory near Dripping Springs.
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Texas
Ole Ringness
Norway
Bosque Coun
Fort Worth
Ringness
Bosque
Ole
John
J.I. Case Plow Company
Hays County
Hays
Blanco
Travis
Burnett Counties
Dripping Springs
Purgatory