The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 65, July 1961 - April, 1962 Page: 527
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great cordiality handed out to us. Mr. Neal"6 was very nice to us
from the first. The woman of the house was away, so there were
only men.
We slept in the barn that night, on the bales of hay. I had always
wanted to sleep in a barn. My bed was like the upper berth in a
sleeper. Carey found a comfortable hole to crawl in. Two cows had
the lower berths.
SEPTEMBER 3
The next morning was bright. Mr. Brite-67 brought us in to break-
fast and was very nice to us. I think he found out we were not
tramps.58 It was a good breakfast.
We started on our way at about eight, I think.59 The roads were
pretty good and we made good time. We wanted, if possible, to reach
Candelaria that day. We were in the mountains and the road was
up and down for a good way. We met the stage driver again. We
dropped the big knapsack out of the buggy once, but missed it soon
and found it a little way down.
The country was very different from what we had been in before.
The mountains all with that outcrop of rock bluff like a wall.
Candlewood and yucca in abundance. A cedar or two in the canyon.
We had a hill to come down, then a long way through a wide
valley. The road in one place went through a regular canal with
56T. T. (Van) Neill, foreman of the Brite Ranch. Ibid.
57Lucas C. Brite, II, a native of Caldwell County, Texas, came to Presidio County
as a twenty-five-year-old cattleman in 1885. In 1896 he married Miss Edward M.
Anderson, and with his wife continued to develop his Presidio County properties.
Brite's contributions to the cattle industry were of the first rank. A founder of
the Highland Hereford Breeders Association, he served as president of the Pan-
handle and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association from 1917 to 192o, and as
president of the American National Livestock Association in 1927 and 1928. In
addition to his other interests, Brite was pre-eminently noted as a devoted church-
man of Texas. In 1911 he endowed a Bible chair at Texas Christian University and
three years later contributed funds toward the construction of Brite Hall at the
same institution. From 1914 until the year of his death, 1941, Brite served as a
trustee of Texas Christian University and of Brite College of the Bible. Ibid. The
editors acknowledge with appreciation the kind courtesy and consideration extended
by Mrs. Lucas C. Brite.
nsCarey remembered, that:
When the owner saw us the next morning and found out who Miss Young was
he apologized for putting us up in the barn. He thought Miss Young was a "Yarb
doctor" (yarb meaning herb). Yarb doctors of those days were quacks who gathered
various herbs and made concoctions that were sold from door to door, usually by
them. A successful example in New England is Lydia Estes Pinkham, a distant
relative of my wife, who made lots of money on her vegetable compound.
19The old county road between the Brite Ranch headquarters and Candelaria
is shown on Figure 1, Map of Rim Rock Country, Trans-Pecos Texas, in Ronald
K. DeFord, "Tertiary Formations of Rim Rock Country, Presidio County, Trans-
Pecos Texas," Texas Journal of Science, X (March, 1958), 7. Primary descriptions
of the route and some historical highlights of the surrounding country were given
by Dr. Warnock, Sheriff Medley, Nick M. Thee, and R. H. Bloys.
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