The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 429
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Texas Collection
My hopes now are to get my law degree and settle down to a law
practice combined with raising cattle and quarter-horses (if such a
combination be possible?). ... I would certainly like to have a ranch out
south of the Davis mountains in the Big Bend country of Texas - but
that is too much wishful dreaming, especially under my present conditions.
If you go out into the Big Bend country again, please think of me,
as that Western country is to me the garden spot of Texas with its
mountains, valleys, sunsets, and fat cattle.
Enclosed in Carpenter's letter was a clipping from a theater
newspaper in the Burma area, which is reproduced below.
THOSE TEXANS
AT IT AGAIN
B-29 BASE, CHINA - The
Texas press agents in China,
like everywhere else in the world,
are still at it.
Ask any Chinese coolie work-
ing at this B-29 base: "What's
the capital of the United
States ?"
Then comes this careful reci-
tation:
"De kopitol . . . of United
States.. . is.. . Austin.. .Texas
(big grin) ting hao!"
Lt. Robert E. McClendon, 0513408, who is on leave from
Sam Houston State Teachers College, has moved from his San
Antonio address and has been assigned permanently to Re-
distribution Center No. 3, Santa Monica, California. At that
station his work will be in Intelligence, doing historical research
in assembling material for a definitive history of the Army Air
Forces in World War II.
Jim (James Slayden) Maverick spoke to the San Antonio
Historical Association on November 17, on "The Storming of
Bejar." It was my pleasure to speak to the group on October 20,
on "The Texan-Santa Fe Expedition."
Anything written by the immortal David Crockett should
be of interest to Texans. Several members have requested the429
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945, periodical, 1945; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146055/m1/473/?rotate=90: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.