title: Company 1, 4th Texas Infantry
date: 1916
language: English
description: Typed under this picture is the legend: "FIFTY YEARS AGO -- Co. 1,
 4th Texas Infantry, was patrolling the Mexican Border.  The company's home
 base was in Mineral Wells.  Later it was called into federal service and
 designated as Co. 144th Infantry, 36th Division, with combat duty in France on
 the Meuse-Argonne Campaign and the Argonne Forest.  In the picture is the
 company pet donkey, about to consume a copy of the Daily Index, on the left is
 Bill Cameron and right is Spencer Heath.  The picture was made in Marathon,
 Texas in 1916."  
     Bill Cameron was employed in various capacities by the
 "Mineral Wells Index" newspaper for many years.  At the time of his death,
 1976, he was its business manager.
     The image of the donkey chewing on
 the copy of the "Index" is a favorite picture shown in the "Index" to this day
 [2013].  It remains the subject of raucous humor in Mineral Wells.
subject: Military and War
subject: Agriculture - Domestic Animals
coverage: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
coverage: New South, Populism, Progressivism, and the Great Depression,
 1877-1939
coverage: 1916
rights: Public
type: Photograph
format: Image
identifier: local-cont-no: AWO_1696P
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29817/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth29817