My Leopard Cat Lion Hunt in Rio Grande Valley
A vivid first person account of a Christmas trip with the narrator and his brother to the Rio Grande in South Texas. They pursue a Mexican lion with dogs, encounter leopard cats, a blue juajaranda, and a hairy chase ending with the lion killed after a tense guard-and-shoot stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Grande
Texas
Myrother
Ramon
Steve
Ranger
Sevral
Old Mexico
Rio Grande Valley
Palm Grove
Christmas on the farm a festive rural portrait
The article paints farm life traditions during Christmas time with the church cedar, gift giving to all including the poor, a focus on family reunions and neighborly cheer, and busy preparations from December through hog killing and hunting season. It highlights meals, hunting of squirrel and rabbit, coon and possum, and farm dances, carols, Bible readings, and old time games.
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Yuletide
D-Farm
Johnny
Squirrel
Why He Likes Christmas by Eddie Guest a newspaper man author
Eddie Guest, famed newspaper writer and verse author, shares his Christmas sentiment. He loves the spirit and foolishness of the holiday, the memories and tenderness it awakens, and the forgiveness it invites, imagining a world where people live at their best during festive hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Eddie” Guest
The Beauty of Christmas by Edgar Nest
A reflective meditation on Christmas meaning and the impact of Jesus birth. The author ponders whether mankind would know Christmas and its spirit of unselfishness without the birth and teachings of Jesus.
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Jesus
Bugg
Edgar Nest
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Mk Geeeems
Lion Tracks
South
Vivian Richardson
Orane
Lion
W. N. Beard
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