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by putting theft owners out fcf business. ■ . .The facts are. that the year 1885 was one of the driest in the history of this section; and the wind and the sand, while they did blow* disagreeably , yet did not blow anything like all of the time (and never have,) And the drouth was broken in August, 1.880, which the author ignored, and there was no considerable loss of cattle during that year from lack of water or grass, but those cattlemen whose range and water gave out or ran short drove their cattle to other ranges to avoid loss, before August, 1885, when the rains came.No Sand Dunesfi. 1 he author again displays ignorance of her local color when she undertakes to locate in twenty five miles of Sweetwater a sandv soil ofOn the Trail♦ ... .Inquiry locally develops that old-timers know nothing of such a story,or incident bearing any semblance tothe story of “The Wind.” The nearestapproach to any foundation for itis the fact that In those early days aman, traveling across country in acovered wagon alone with his wife,accidently shot himself- And the wife,being frail, was unable to load.his• *remajns in the wagon, and after waiting a day on the lonesome trail for some passer-by to help her and no one coming along, she took the butcher knife and in the loose soil fifty miles or more northwest of here, dug a shallow giave and buried her husband in it. Months afterward the spring winds blew away some of thescloose soil Mason dug Wat the kitchen .shoVel'^ and the Winil a few' hours.But.cruel - on the part f.....leave • LettyWmher frailty, and horror^ send her out into the hoWlingr ‘ “ fc ^.......... ......wind to wander on the- PMns1'Sweetwater for all of thise yeiijsince the winter of 1886.m.. , 5vrv7--vV®We have another wait befotefor the epic. of: the,;West Texas; for that) is that “The Wind” is •hot.-'-f:R. C. Crane.The pessimist, sees the .cloudVtosilver lining.
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Sweetwater Daily Reporter
Sweetwater, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 29, 1925
Page 8
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