The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957 Page: 104
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
country-a beautiful country with broad grassy prairies and
thousands of branded and unbranded cattle roaming these plains.
Only a few substantial farms and good homes; all others just
nester cabins housing the cowboys looking after the cattle and
ranches.
A round-up of 5000 head of bawling and rumbling cattle was
all day passed our house, starting for Kansas, perhaps, I do not
remember.
Now then. In 1873 finds us on the move west again, set-
tling near the village of Gatesville. I, at that time was past my
12th birthday and had heard of schools and school teachers, but
not with pleasurable anticipation, but fear and trembling.
'Twas a great joke to frighten children with tales of long coated,
bespectacled man with a long slender hickory switch lying on
table in front of him. I longed so much to attend school and get
an education, but was so excited the first day I attended the lit-
tle log house-a very pretty, neatly built house in a belt of tim-
ber; O, yes; I walked with sister and brother 21/2 miles. We did
not mind. It was usually lots of fun. We left home at sunrise; and
with good luck got back at sundown. There were no public
schools that part of Texas in that day, so we had a few months
each summer. Our books were picked up from friends and
neighbors who had laid them aside years before; and as you can
see seldom could two alike, be found.
However, there was one book that all shared alike: Webster's
blue back spelling book. It contain a little of many things;
some things that the teachers at that time could not explain.
Things just moved slowly with slight improvement till the
turn of the century. Telegraphy having come before this cen-
tury was making rapid progress over the country. Then came
telephones and many other inventions too numerous for me to
mention.
Now, I have left the ox wagon, the open fire cooking, the home
spun clothes and the watermill ground bread stuff (what a pityl)
I shall skip over a long period of years and tell you about the
first airplane I saw. I think it was 1910 or 1911. I do not re-
member the exact date (if wrong, correct). A town in Okla-
homa was holding a State Fair. I was watching the races when a
funny looking little plane came zooming over the Grandstand.10o4
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957, periodical, 1957; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101163/m1/117/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.