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Texas cowboy Boss Winter loses home to wildfire near Abilene
In West Texas a vast Swenson Fire scorched 162 square miles, destroying eight buildings on Boss Winter Estate near Abilene. At 106 years old he remembers a lifetime on the plains, while family recounts losses of his birth digs and homes of his wives and children. The unoccupied homes burned as the blaze spread across four counties.
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Permont N.L. Winter
West Texas
Abilene
Bess
Leta
Betty Rush Whigham
Gladys Winter
Boss
Winter Estate
Texas Forest Service
Swenson
Fort Worth
Ross