The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, July 1964 - April, 1965 Page: 6
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
gleaned over old papers and novels that i read so long ago
that parts of them seemed new
anything that is worth preserving after being read is worth
hunting up and reading over again
He also liked a change of pace. One Sunday he noted that he:
read commentaries on the bible and papers of different kinds
to go from one kind of reading to another a person can read
all day
the change is a rest
The range of Westfall's reading was wide. Everything from the
World Almanac to a life of Daniel Boone, from an early history
of San Antonio to a Dictionary of American Politics and a detec-
tive story was of interest to him. His comments on reading come
almost as frequently as those on the weather. It is a shame that
Westfall did not have access to a public library-one such as his
legacy makes possible.
Westfall, reader and lover of solitude, was no recluse. He en-
joyed a toddy with his fellow veterans. One day in 1891 when they
had met at the office where they signed their pension vouchers,
they "all went to the nearest bar [the General] in front and took a
parting drink and broke ranks." One day in i888 when Westfall
chanced to meet "Big Foot" Wallace for the first time in eight or
nine years,
it was a joyous meeting and of course we took the round
and made it count for he is no believer in half measures
and neither am i
He did not record the conversation, but one wonders whether
they discussed the time Ed Westfall had killed the Indian, Big
Foot, from whom Wallace had gotten his nickname; or the time
their company of Rangers had successfully fought a band of eighty
Indians. Although only nineteen men composed the Ranger band,
they killed twenty-two Indians.
Westfall enjoyed a good time. One Saturday when he was sixty-
seven, he admitted he went into San Antonio:
on the pretext of tending to business and was really so in
part but one part of the inducement to go at that particular
time was .to see barnums show for he never disappoints the
people
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