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Seymour V. "Ike" Connor, past president and a Fellow of the TSHA since
1954, died in Lubbock on March 23, 2001. In the reminiscence and obit-
uary about him in the last issue of the Quarterly, we misspelled his name.
We sincerely regret this error.
Meetings
For the first time ever, a group of six historians will convene this spring
to talk about the controversial Mason County War of the 187os. The pub-
lic is invited to attend this event, which will take place on Sunday, May 5,
2002, at 2:00 P.M. at the Odeon Theater in Mason.
The moderator for the symposium will be George B. Ward, managing
editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and director of publications
for the TSHA. The historians scheduled to appear are Julius DeVos,
Glenn Hadeler, Allen G. Hatley, David Johnson, Jerry Ponder, and Peter
R. Rose. All six have spent several years researching the oldest records
pertaining to the feud.
The Mason County War, also known as the Hoodoo War, arose over cat-
tle rustling in 1874. A bloody cycle of lynching, ambushes, gunfights, and
revenge killings reached its height in 1875. Governor Richard Coke sent
a group of Texas Rangers to maintain law and order in Mason. The feud
divided the Germans and the non-German white settlers in the region,
who for more than two decades had disagreed on everything from Indian
policy to secession. The range war created such bitter feelings on both
sides that generations of Mason County natives refused to talk about it. As
late as 1966 local historian Stella Gipson Polk confessed when she wrote
about the conflict: "I am too close to this war. I know too much, and yet, I
must tell too little."
The Mason County Historical Society will sponsor the program. Admis-
sion is free. A reception honoring the panelists will follow. For more in-
formation, please call Mike Innis at 915/347-1020, or program director
Scott Zesch at 915/347-6291.
The Society for Military History held its 69th annual conference April
4-7 in Madison, Wisconsin. The theme for the conference was "War and
Remembrance: Constructing the Military Past and Future." Session pan-
els assessed military classics, memoirs and reminiscences, military
reformers, and military leadership. Among the distinguished speakers
was John Milton Cooper Jr., author of The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow667
2002
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