Pen Pal Quest Reaches Texas State Pen Newsroom
A 19 year old Ebute Metta resident in British West Africa asked an American for a US newspaper to help him find pen pals. The Echo at Huntsville Texas responded by receiving his letter seeking many pen friends. The Echo is the official Texas state pen publication.
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Ebute Mettia
Nigeria
British West Africa
United States
Echo
Huntsville
Exas
Texas State Pen
Duel of 60 Paces: Arkansas Editors Duel in 1845
Two Van Buren editors Thomas Sterne and J. D. Logan faced off with rifles at 60 paces on the Arkansas River bank near Fort Smith. Missed shots led to a handshake and a resolve to duel only in print. The pair later moved to Texas, publishing the Texan Advocate in Victoria from May 8, 1846, now the Victoria Advocate still in print.
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Arkansas
Fort Smith
van Buren
Thomas Sterne
J. D. Logan
Western Frontier Whig
Arkansas Intellingencer
George W. Clarke
Logan
John Logan
Texas
Sterne
New Orleans
Port la Vaca
Clarke
United States
Victoria
Texan Advocate
Victoria Advocate
Cry of the Thunderbird reviewed as Indian voices anthology
Charles Hamilton surveys Cry of the Thunderbird a collection of one hundred stories from fifty authors and many tribes including Pontiac Tecumseh Sitting Bull Geronimo Black Hawk and Chief Joseph. The volume presents native perspectives from pre Revolution days to modern times with humor dignity and wisdom.
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Charles Hamilton
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Hamilton
Pontiac
Tecumseh
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Black Hawk
Chief Joseph
No Survivors and Steel Trails to Santa Fe reviewed
Will Henry's No Survivors presents a Sioux viewpoint on Custers last stand in a vivid fictional account. the book is praised as the best Western in years. L. L. Waters Steel Trails to Santa Fe explores the Santa Fe railroad expansion, its finance and technology, with strong Southwestern context.
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Will Henry
Northwest
Custer
Little Big Horn
Crazy Horse
Col
John Clayton
Random House
New York
Santa Fe
L. L. Waters
University of Kansas Press
Casket Found in Attic Reveals Long Held Secret
In Eagle Pass Texas relatives discover a casket with the bones of Velia San Miguel who died in 1912 at age five. Elpidio and Margarita San Miguel had died last year and had never spoken of the coffin. An aunt, dying, revealed a cradle and casket in the attic, uncovered by Olga Yzaguirre and relatives years later. The death was attributed to tetanus.
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Eagle Pass
Tex
Edgar Allen Poe
Elpidio San Miguel
San Miguel
Ferry Street
Velia
Margarita
Olga
Jesus Moncada
Court House
Felipe Moncado
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the Macmillan Co
Thunderbird
California
U. S
Thomas Benton
Z. Kidwell
Kit Carson
Fremont
Brother Jesus
Mother Love
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