Amarillo Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1938 Page: 42 of 264
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>ME PLAINS HISTORIANS
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•trikingly different, a land nf con-
troversy and clash. It has all been
Interest!**, and there nit satisfar-
Uon in disroverinc on certain «r-
easinns that the fragment* I had
been gathering, like pot ahards of
the archaeologist, constituted
when put together a thing of
meaning.
As an example of Richardson's
writinp. and his feeling for the In-
dians whose destruction he recorded,
1 quote from the last, page of his
Comanche Barrier. The year Is 1875
when the Comanches gave up their
•truffle.
For a centurT and a half they
had resisted the efforts of th«
white men to take their country.
They were finally defeated in the
un'q'.ia conflict, hut what a mag-
nificent fight they made! When
the summer grass made the ponies
sleek and frisky, the veterans must
have felt a mighty urge to roam
again over the sea of grass that
was th- Llano Estacado, or take
a few more horses from the San
Saba Mere memories and
dreams: times like these could
never return. But even vet. if we
look hv the light of an August
moon across a Texas prairie dotted
here and there by gnarled mes-
quite and mottes of scrubby oak,
surely we shall see phantom war-
riors riding as of old—Comanches.
In Lubbock, William Curry Hold-
en a chair of history in Texas
Technological College. He taught
for some years at Abilene, but after
acquiring a, number of degrees mov-
ed higher up on the Plains. He pub-
lished "Alkali Trails" in 1930. "Rol-
l?e Burns" In 1932 and "The Spur
Ranch" in 1934. At present he U
working on "The Colonization of
the Post Ranch."
Though Sheffy began with the
medieval period and moved forward
to recent Plains history, Holden be-
gan with the recent and has moved
back into the field of anthropol-
ogv and archaeology. The summers
find him, not at the college, but in
the arid : etches of New Mexico,
Arizona and Old Mexico. I like to
think of him as buried in a pit from
which dirt. cks. arrowheads,
human skeleton.- and pot shards
whatever they are—may be seen fly-
ing into the air. Some day he may
find the lance that Sheffy lost in
the middle ages. Holden is direc-
tor of archaeological research at
Texas Tech and has collaborated
with a number of scholars in differ-
ent fields in studies of the Yaqui
Indians of Sonora. Mexico. Wheth-
er historian or archaeologist, Hold-
en has contributed and will con-
tribute much to the knowledge of
the Plains country of Texas.
T'aley Preserves an Art
now from the colleges
of the Caprock. When he searched
the spot he could not find them. A
cowboy told him that in the early
days the cowboys had carried off the
tires and other iron parts to make
horseshoes and branding irons. He
doubted that they had carried away
all the irons and continued his
search In the vicinity where the
camp was supposed to have been.
Finally he located the spot and re-
covered a wagon thimble, a broken
wagon wrench and one or two oth-
er pieces. Since the place where he
found these things conformed to the
description given by the men who
tut ions. A large number of them
have come from the Plains of Tex-
as. Unfortunately I do not have a
complete list and therefore must
omit a considerable group from va-
rious institutions.
Claude V. Hall, now profesor of
government at the East Texas State
Teachers' College, Commerce, seem*
to have been the pioneer in the
writing of county histories, and the
county he wrote about was Floyd.
He says:
During the regular session of
1921-1922 and the summer session
of 1922 I completed the subjects
required for both the bachelor of
arts and the master of arts de-
gree . My thesis for the mas-
ter's degree was under the title
"The Early History of Floyd Coun-
ty." It was written under the di-
rection of Or. Eugene Campbell
Barker . . . This thesis of mine
was the first venture in the writ-
ing of county history . . . for
the master's degree.
Mr. Hall knew the country of
which he wrote. He was a student
is also author of some work hooks
and multiple tests for use in public
schools.
* • *
During the past summer Giles E.
Bradford, who teaches in Sweet-
water, wrote a history of Mitchell
County. It contains some excellent
accounts of cowboy life and excel-
lent examples of genuine cowboy
humor.
Harley True Burton wrote the
history of the JA Ranch which was
published later. It describes the
numerous problems that the early
ranchmen had to deal with in toe
Panhandle and emphasizes the serv-
ices of Col. Charles Goodnight.
Boone McClure, now teacher of
English in the Childress High
School, wrote "The History of Ran-
GILES E. BRADFORD. ,TR
Of Sweetwater. Author of "The
History of Mitchell County."
War in 193«. He has been a mem-
ber of the history faculty in the La-
mesa High School for a number of
years.
Roger A. Burgess is superintend-
ent of schools at Perryton. He wrote
"A History of Crosby County" in
1927 and published an article, "Pio-
neer Quaker Families of the South
Plains," in The Panhandle Plains
Historical Review in 1928. On March
28, 1936, The Crosbyton Review pub-
lished its 28th anniversary edition
and to this Mr. Burgess contributed
several articles. He wrote on the
Indian wars In Crosby County, on
Estacado, formerly Marietta, and
other subjects. Mr. Burgess was
superintendent of the Merkel schools
for 18 years. He has spent his
summers traveling, has visited 41
states, Canada and Mexico.
J. A. Rlckard is professor of his-
tory and government at the College
of Arts and Industries at Kings-
ville. He has written "The History
of the Cattle Ranch Industry of the
South Plains" for a thesis. In The
Cattleman for January, 1928, he had
an article entitled "Organization of
Ranches on the South Plains" and
another entitled "Ere the Coming
of the Cattleman" in August of the
same year. The story of "South
I> .i
It deals with Indians, Texas Rang-
ers, desert trails, ranching on the
Palo Duro, and a host of other in-
teresting subjects.
Miss Hamner submitted her book
to the State Textbook Board for
adoption as a supplementary read-
er in the public schools. She was
a single individual competing with
powerful publishers who had the
most skillful agents working in their
interest for months before the date
of toe adoption. Miss Hamner
worked alone, without help except
from those who read and liked her
book.
The day of adoption came and It
was decided that each publisher
should send a representative before
the board to discuss the merits of
their books. Miss Hamner had no
BOONE MrCLI'RE
Of Childress. Author of "His-
tory of Randall County" and "The
T-Anchor Ranch."
WINNIE D. NANCE
Teacher in Woodrow Wilson
High School, Dallas. Author of
"The History of Archer County."
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IDEAL
BARBER and
BEAUTY
SHOP
j Has
been fflvinj Amarillo men
j and
women aatlsfactorr barber
|| and beauty shop work since 19S1.||
AIR-
CONDITIONED
TOR SUMMER COMFORT
We
feature modern equipment i|
and apfclali/e In every phase of
beauty and barber ahop aervlce.
MARVIN and HAZJO, HALL |
Proprietors
PHO.VE 5758
114 Fast 7IH St.
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We turn .
and universities to the ranches and
f spaces in search of that true kept the meager records, his
product of the range, J. Evetts | rience is conclusive or as nearly so.
Ha lev. Recently he was foreman as one can expert.
of a large ranch somewhere in Arl- | nr. Frederick Webb Hodge, one of
zona. but even there he continued ^ (ft e most distinguished scholars In
his- historical investigations. ! the United States, is collaborating
Haley's historical achievements j with Carroll in the publication of
are notable. His first book, "The j the sources and record of the Texan
XIT Ranch,' was published by the ( Santa Fe Expedition. This work will
Capitol Syndicate as a record of< be published by the Quivira Society,
t "ir work in establishing and con- j Carroll says that his most thrill-
durting a ranch on the lands given (experience was in finding Galla-
them for building the capuoi at j gher's diary and traveling along the
Austin. 'Hip book was immediate- tralj Brc0rding to Gallagher's log.
ly recognized as outstanding, but Its j j am sure ^ referring to hlstor-
circulation was cut, off by an unfor-| jcal thrills. On a June day In
tunate Incident. The book Is now ^ at my home one
very rare and when a copy is found,: jlour 8ftPr jrje and his bride, Mary
it, sells to collectors at an exorbit- lQ DUrrljngi ]1afi taken their degrees,
ant price. Just recently I had a ; gnlne County Historians
letter from a j,. mleht With the development of grad-
Unlversity inquirir g • j nate work in the educational Insti-
obl®ln f ,c0Py'Tr(,1._ Vft-w «rv,arles ! tutions, the historians began to seek
The latest Ha. b . _ j subjects for their students to work
Goodnight: Cowman1 a" .' 0n. They began to assign county
man was published in 1. .. ■ _ _ histories and other local subjects,
in graphic, forceful j These histories have been and are
story of that great har a . _ - bpln ^Tjltpn )n many inst.1-
Charles Goodnight. Mr. Haiey has ,
contributed to the various historical
publications, to The Saturday Eve-
ning Post, The Cattleman and to
other publications.
H B. Carroll on the Trail
Among the younger group. Horace
Bailev Carroll must not be over-
looked. He, like many residents of
the Plains, grew up ir the Cross
Timbers country but did his col-
lege work at Lubbock where he be-
came for a time a member of the
history department. Later he did
graduate work and took the higher
rieeree. To Ifok at, Carroll- one
would never suspect that he was
once a railroad brahman on the
Union Pacific and other roads. At,
present he is head of the social
science riepartmem ar ihe Stats Ccl
Jege at Portales, N. M.
While a graduate student he be-
came Interested in the Texan Santa
F Expedition which passed across
the Panhandie into New Mexico.
Carroll has walked and ridden over
the whole route, located practically j
every camping place, and uncovered
diaries and manuscripts hitherto
unknown. Hts labor was of the na-
ture of detective work and railed
for the exercise of remarkable In-
genuity.
One example of the thoroughness
of his work will illustrate thus. H°
knew from the records that when
the expedition broke up near Ama-
rlllo the wagons were burned and
the men continued west on horse-
hark. He set out to find the spot ,
where the wagons were burned.
After much inquiry among cowboys
and cattlemen, he learned that some
wagon irons were found at the foot
J. A. RICKARD
professor of history and govern-
ment at College of Arts and
Sciences. Kingsville; close student
of ranch history.
in the first school opened at Floyd-
ada on the first Monday in Jan-
uary, 1891. In the fall of that year
he became an assistant teacher in
the same school at a salary of $20
a month. In the spring of 1896 he
founded the Flovdada Hesperian.
At. that time Bryan and free silver
offered the country a new deal and
Hall jumped into the fight. He
writes:
The seven years (1896-1903)
which 1 devoted to publishing
The Hesperian were busy and im-
pressive ones. 1 felt that it was
my duty to work in the ranks nf
tbp reformers, social and political.
The editorial policy of the paper
was active and aggressive. I cham-
pioned principles which I thought
were sound and policies which I
deemed wise . I was frequent-
ly taken to task by those who did
not agree with me . . . The ex-
perience was somewhat unrcmun-
erative because of the sparse
population of the county, but it
afforded me a rich schooling in
the realities of public life.
I wish, to express the hope that
the files of The Hesperian have been
preserved and that they may find
their way into some coilecre library
where future students of Plains his-
tory may use them as a source for
early life in Floyd County.
Miss Winnie D. Nance, teacher of
history in Woodrow Wilson High
School. Dallas, has written the his-
tory of Archer County. The first
chapter of this thesis deals with the
W. S. Peters Colony which occa-
sioned so much strife over land
titles in West Texas. Miss Nance
m
pie are playing for stakes running
into the hundreds of thousands.
Sometimes an adoption turns on a
hair to make one firm happy and
a half dozen miserable.
I was in the lobby of the hotel the
night after Miss Hammer secured
the adoption. Every book man had
heard of her marvelous achieve-
ment and was talking about it. Here
is the story as I heard it:
There was no doubt that the board
was sympathetic when this lone
woman from the High P'ains entered
the roomtoarguehcrownca.se. They
were soon amused to see that she
did not take things too seriously.
Some of the members had rpad the
book and found that in quoting the
men of the Plains she had used the
word "damn1 once or Iwice.
One member asked her If she
thought such language should be in
a textbook for the use of children
in the grades.
"Well," she said, "if you think
any of these children haven't heard
that word from some of their men
folks, we might cut it out. Anyway,"
she added, "what are a few damns
OOIiQEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION, inrta,
LS, LX, LIT, Turkey Tracks, Bar
CC, Springer, Laurel Leaf, Cator, T.
Anchor, XIT, JA, Quarter Cirri i
Heart, Shoe Bar, Milliron, U Bais
Diamond F, PO, Morgan, Box T,
Matado., Rocking Chair, Ma.ster.son,
and Shelton, Frying Pan and others.
She is anxious to get additional ma-
terial on all these ranches, and es-
pecially on the Rocking Chair out-
fit. She thinks this ranch was
started by Lytle and Conckle or
Kunkle who brought (5.000 head of
cattle from Collin,sworth County in
1877. If any readers of this article
can give her Information on this
subject, or about either of these
men, she will be appreciative.
Mrs. Olive Dixon, also of Amarillo,
Is among the women who have done
historical work. In her "Life of
Billy Dixon" she has preserved an
original account of one of the pio-
neers of the Panhandle, Her hus-
band dictated this account to her
before his death In 1913.
There are many others In West
Texas ,that- deserve mention, but t
among friends?" The tension was I have already stayed too long. Ros
broken; there was laughter and Jest - J Coe Logue has done some excellent
ihg. The board decided that this 1 wnrk as have many of the news-
woman really didn't give a damn paper editors. I wish to mention
whether she got the contract or not,
and so they gave it to her,
the Second XIT Reunion Edition
of Tlie Dalhart Trxan of August
D. W. OGI.ETREE
Teacher in l.amesa High School.
Author of "A History of Dawson
County."
The only parallel I know to this 1937. The editors did a tremendous
achievement is that of another ; amount of work gathering Informa-
woman historian, Mrs. Percy V. Pen- ! non about, West, Texas. The Man-
nybaeker. who wrote and published RUm ,okla 1 Dailv Star issued its
her own Texas history which served Knlden anniversary edition on Oct.
as a text, when the older generation i 13. mS7. This issue Is particularly
was giowing up. ! valuable for lis complete account
At present Miss Hamner is work- j of Greer County, once dispu*.°d tar-
ing on a book which will bear the , ritory between Texas and Oklahoma
title "Life Began in the Seventies." ; incidentally Charles F. Hart man
She has written sketches of about
25 of the early ranches such as the (Continued On rage 20)
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RUPERT N. RICHARDSON
Of Abilene. Vice president of
JIardin-Simmons University and
author of Comanche Barrier to
South Plains Settlement.
riall County and the T Anchor
Ranch." He has published "A Sur-
vey of the Open Range" in The Pan-
handle Plains Historical Review for
1930 and 1937 respectively. At pres-
ent he is collecting material on the
Panhandle during the cattle period
and on political activity there. When
he was writing his thesis, he wrote
to a banker for information. The
banker replied that he did not, want
his past, held up for puhlic scrutiny.
Then there was the criminal lawyer
who discovered this sound princi-
ple in defending men who had been
quick enough with the six-shoter
to survive: "Never try your client
until his victim's grave is covered
with grass." If Boone McClure ever
publishes a book marlp up of such
material It will certainly be Inter-
esting, but he will have to read it
from some shady pine grove in East
Texas.
D. W. Ogletree completed a his-
tory of Dawson County In the World
CLAUDE V. HALL
Professor of government. East
Texas State Teacher College,
Commerce. Author of "The Early
History of Floyd County.'
Plains Land Rushes" appeared In
The Panhandle Plains Historical Re
view in April, 1934. "The Hazards
of Ranching on the South Plains"
appeared in The Southwestern His-
torical Quarterly for April 1934. In
addition to this work on Plains his-
tory, Rickard has devoted himself
to collecting folklore and has writ-
ten three textbooks.
Women Historians
In some respects the most remark-
able historian in the Panhandle is
Miss Laura V. Hamner nf Amarillo.
It is very unusual for a historian to
be his or her own publisher. Some,
people have published their own
writings, but. those who have not lost
money on the venture can be count-
ed on the fingers of one hand. Miss
Hamner is one exception.
In 1935 she published a small vol-
ume entitled "The No-Gun Man of
Texas: A Century of Achievement,
1835-1929." It is a story of the life
i and work of Col. Charles Goodnight.
m~w
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ROGER A. Rt'RGESS
Superintendent of schools nt
Perryton. Author and authority
on Indian wars.
I representative; she had to go her-
r-elf and talk about her own bool;
The board is an impressive body of
j educators and business men srd
women, a little tired and bored and
| very skeptical about all the claims
; made for the virtues of the wares
| ( 'fered. The nervous tension is
high on these occasions where peo-
WE CONGRATULATE
The citiienship of (lie Panhandle on having the
service of a metropolitan newspaper
THE NEWS and THE GLOBE
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TO THE
PEOPLE OF WEST TEXAS
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WIM)MiLJ,s For WaTER..,
Plains!
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Windmills made possible the intensive development of the
cattle ranges of the Panhandle—and also solved the water
problem for hundreds of ranch homes, farms and small com-
munities, few of which had other water sources.
Since the first of the century, Dempster Mill Mfg. Co. has been
in the forefront in providing sturdy, practical, economical,
advanced types of Dempster Windmilli to stock raiseri
and others of the Panhandle -Plains; and for many years thrs«
superior types of windmills have been backed up by an
adequate, close-at-hand factory branch at Amarillo.
Congratulations to Amarillo and Potter County on the rapid
progress they have made in their first fifty years. We ar«
gratified that we have been able to contribute toward thi*
advancement.
DempsteR Mill Mfg. Co.
O. R. "Jack" Allen, Manager
98 Polk Street
Phone 2-224
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