Life of Bigfoot Wallace Ends With Legendary Feats
Recounted by A J Sowell from a 1899 pamphlet, the piece details Bigfoot Wallace’s frontier exploits. It narrates raids on coons near his sleep drift, a potluck of mountain meats including Comanche, mule, and prairie dog, and a Monterey siege bread trial with a Mexican cook. Wallace now lives near DeVine in Frio county aged eighty two.
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Cardus
Wallace
Brother Jones
Mexico
Texas
Monterey
Hidalgo Hotel
W.h
Bigfooot
Taylor
Hungary
Bramlett
Thomas
W. W. Cochran
Frio County
Devine
Big Foot
A. J. Sowell
Bigfoot Wallace
Heel Fly Time in Texas Hero John Warren Hunter
A condensed life sketch of John Warren Hunter born in Rogersville Alabama August 10 1846 and died January 12 1915 in San Angelo Texas. His youth during the Civil War era shaped by frontier teaching and journalism careers across Texas including Fredericksburg Mason Menardville and San Angelo. He became a teacher writer and newspaper man authoring Heel Fly Time in Texas under a pseudonym.
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John Warren Hunter
Rogersville
Alabama
San Angelo
Texas
Hopkins County
Sulphur Bluff
John Hunter
Howard
Brownsville
Mexican
Tennessee
Mary Ann Calhoun
Arkansas
McKenzei College
Clarksville
Hunt County
West Texas
Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Spring Creek
Squaw Creek
Washington
Little Country School
Hunter
Old Glory
Agin
Camp San Saba
McCulloch County
West
Menardville
Kunter
Fort Worth Youth Arrested After $900 in Bonds Found
A Fort Worth youth yielded $900 in Liberty bonds after police grilled him overnight. The money, part of a $2,000 Memphis Texas hardware store robbery, arrived in nine mail packages from an unknown sender. A 19 year old Memphis boy confessed and is held after failing to post $1,500 bond. $400 of loot remains unrecovered.
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Fort Worth
Memphis
Texas
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Oscar Stein
Henke Bros
Eddy Krawer
Star Garage
Frontier Times
Bandera Texas
Bandera, Texas
James Hunter
Forest
Willsow City
Voca
Mason
Loyal Valley
Peter’s Prairie
Fort McKavett
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