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| Nature Was Bountiful to Early Texas; Little Farming Done Until Planters Came From Old South; Row Over Schools; Fight About Situation Caused Children to Miss Education. [per J. F. Williams] |
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| Early Dallas Kicked Hard at Census Report; When Recount Showed 4,000 Fewer Citizens Subsided; Tricks at Election; Frank H. Jinks Tells How Negro Lost in Aldermanic Race. |
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| [C. P. Fagan] Tells Story of Railroad Growth Here; T. & P. Established its General Offices in Dallas in 1886; Sees Great Change; Holiday Excursion Was Featured by Roads in Early Days. |
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| [R. E. Best] Tells Story of Dallas in Saloon Days; "Green Tree" Was Long Famous for Fine Beer; This City in 1876; Held Church in Dance Hall -- The Old Toll Bridge. |
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| He Rode Box Cars to Get to Denison; J. F. Propst Tells of Journey Over katy in 1872; Visits in Dallas; Main Street Property Offered Him at $4 Front Foot. |
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| Dallas in Old Days a Mecca for Gambling; Houses of Chance Offered Varied Games to Devotees; Reform Follows; Inaccessibility Now Has Made Dicing Favorite with White Men. |
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| He Sold First Milk in Dallas Back in 1873; Victor S. Bowles Startled Town When He Put Wagon On; Used Native Cows; Good Stock Unheard of and Longhorns, Too, Were High. |
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| Took His Baths in Pool on Site of Linz Block; Wallie Felton Came Here When Dallas Was in Baby Clothes; Deer in Oak Cliff; Prairie Chickens Plenty Where St. Mary's College Stands. |
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| Advance of City Shown by Hotels; Are a Sure Barometer of Expansion, Says Dave McCord. |
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| Hunted Hogs for Soldiers in Old Texas; R. H. Nelms' Uncle "Found Them Where They Were Extinct."; Pioneers of State; Father Settled at Henderson, Rusk County, in 1842. |
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| Born in Texas, Cow-Punched All His Life; Captain Bill [W. T.] Preston Worked in All Parts of State; Driven by Indians; Family Had to Change Locations Because of Hostile Redskins, |
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| Old French Settlement Near Dallas Had Many Splendid Citizens |
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| Yellow Fever Drove Him Out of Texas Once; George W. Loomis Fled Galveston, but Came Back Later; Settled in Dallas; Man That Guarded Him at Libby Brought Him to State. |
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| Dallas' First Church Began Back in 1849; Bethany Was Original Religious Organization of County; No Settled Home; Members Came Far to Various Homes to Attend Worship. |
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| Oldest Dallas Resident, Says Court Bailiff; Cornwell Outlcassed in County Maybe, but Not in Town; Born Here in 1854; Old-Timer Tells of Burning of City Sixty-Six Years Ago. |
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| Born in Dallas 77 Years Ago, and Still Here; John D. Beard's Father Was Second Sheriff of This County; Not Much of Town; Courthouse, Jail, Store and Saloon About All Buildings. |
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| Garland
Born of Bitter Fight of Early Days; Duck Creek and Embree Had Acri- monious Feud in '80s; Old- Timers Scarce; Few of Pioneer Doctors and Lawyers Left in Dallas. [per Dr. K. H. Embree] |
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| Steamers, Not Rails, Wanted Back in 1870; Dallas Folk Thought Future Rested on Navigating Trinity; Cluster of Shacks; That's About All City Was When J. T. Downs Arrived Here. |
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| Born in Texas When it Still Was Republic; Milton Ragsdale One of Few Left That Can Claim Honor; Cure for Malaria; Soused in River in Belief That it Would Kill Ague. |
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| Plenty of Cash When Railroad Came to Dallas; Any Man With Get-Up Could Obtain It, Says [W. A.] Work; Wet Buffalo Hunt; Old-Timer Tells How He and Others Were Drowned Out. |
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| Pioneers Cut Path Through Texas Glades; Dallasite [W. M. Freeman] Helped Survey Route of Houston & Great Northern; Was Cowboy Town; Environs of Albany Uncouth but Picturesque in '80s. |
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| Fifty Years in Public Work in Dallas County; Uncle Billie [W. S.] Ferguson Came Here From Missouri in 1860. |
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| Dallas Held Lively Mardi Gras in 1877; Early Resident [Joe A. Caugnard] Tells of Town's Plan of Advertising; Warmest Election; Mayorality Race of '91 Brought Out Much Oratory. |
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| Land
Values Increased by Barbed Wire; Steel Plows Also Contribute
to Delta County Progress; First Crops Large; Judge J. F. Holmes
Gives Outline of Early Days in Texas. |
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| Communist Colony [Old Frenchtown / LaReunion] Once Failed Here; A. W. Capy, Born in Dallas in 1863, Tells Their Story; Good as Citizens; Most of Population Then Was Killing Indians and Hunting. |
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| Dallas During 25-Cent Meal Days Depicted; Frank Deremeaux Tells How City Looked 50 Years Ago; Early Boom Stage; $1.50 Was Big Day's Pay When West Was Just Opening Up. |
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| [S. E. Trippitt] Trekked to Texas from Tennessee; State Called "Promised Land" After War of the States; By Covered Wagon; Was Great Exodus from Old South to Fertile Lands of West. |
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| Dallas in 40's Described by A. H. Ellett; Wooden Bridge Crossed Dallas Branch on Commerce Street; Built First Mill; Pioneer Merchants Had Store When the City Burned in 1860. |
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| Delta County Pioneer Days Are Pictured; Judge J. F. Holmes Tells of Events at Red Schoolhouse; Community Center; Christmas and July 4 Celebrations Most Vivid Ones. |
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| J. H. Yeargan Relates Early Dallas History; In 1854 He Lived in Log Cabin With Indians as Neighbors; Tells of 1860 Fire; Land Was Cheap in Days When Farms Covered Present City. |
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| Log Cabin Era in Texas Told by G. [George] A. Harvey; Dallasites Settled in Hood County 54 Years Ago. |
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| Changes in Dallas for Forty Years; B. A. Moon Reached the City Year After the News Was Started; Living Was Cheap; Restaurants Served Ten-Course Dinners for Twenty-Five Cents. |
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| Back in Days When Tallow Dips Burned; Traces Development by Means of Evolution of Illumination; The First Trains; Half Century Ago Speed Limit Was About 15 Miles an Hour. [per Jeff G. Jones] |
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| Farming Was Laborious in Former Days; Dallasite [Major James A. Harris], Born in 1845, Tells of Hardships of His Youth; Van Zandt 'War'; Canton and Wills Point Faction Under Arms as Guards Arrived. |
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| [George
Cretien] Saw Herds of Stock Driven Through City; Longhorns Stampeded and Lives of Citizens Were Endangered; French Colonists; Reunion Was Settled in May, 1856, Close to Cement City. |
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| First
Store in County Was at Pleasnt Run; C. C. Parks, Born Near Lancaster, Tells of Early Dallas Days; Gun Plant There; French Colonist Made Firearms for Confederate Army. |
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| Collects $89, Mother Thinks He Is Robber; Old-Timer Tells of Experience as Newsboy in Dallas; Got Here in 1883; Albert J. Toole Had Interesting Experiences in "Old Days." |
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| Ranger Forty Years Ago Had No Easy Life; Henry Putz, Who Enlisted at 18, Tells of Their Exploits. |
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| Sam Bass and His Gang Kept State Excited; Bailiff of Corporation Court [G. E. Cornwell] Has Reminiscences of Bandits; Started in Kansas; Held Up Union Pacific Train, Then Came Back to Texas. |
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| Woman Saw Dallas Burn Back in 1860; Mrs. [Eliza Jane] Martin Came to Texas in Carriage in Previous Year; Old Times in South; No Stoves, No Lamps, None of Modern Day Necessities. |
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| Orphaned on Way to Dallas Back in '61, [William C.] Hill is One of Three Living Here Ever Since |
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| Wine
Used to Put Out Fire in 'Old Days'; Leak in Cistern, So Volunteer Department Raided Saloon; Mardi Gras Fete; Crowds Came to Dallas When Celebrations Were On in '70s. [per August S. Guillot] |
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| Kentucky Boy Found Dallas Water Muddy; Cortez Collins Arrived in 1880 and Looked Town Over; Sees First Reaper; Considered Wonderful as Watches Farmers Cutting Wheat. |
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| Journeyed to City Through Wild Country; E. Wilmuth Arrived in Dallas County in Year 1854; Roads Mere Trails; Buffaloes and Wild Indians Were in Tarrant County. |
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| Sold First Reaper Used Near Dallas; J. S. Shultz, Old-Timer, Got Here Fifty-One Years Ago; Grass Everywhere; Farming Hardly Had Begun Then in This Portion of Texas. |
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| Came
to Dallas 72 Years Ago as Small Boy; Worth Peak and Family Arrived
Soon After Mexican War; 100 Citizens Then; Few Settlers Encountered
Between Shreveport and Here. |
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| Pioneer Days Recalled by Early Settler; J. Sam Jones Sees Many Changes in South and Southwest. |
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| Fought Many Indian Battles in Early Days; J. K. P. Yeary, One of Oldest Settlers in This Part of Texas; Day of Cheap Land; 25 Cents Per Acre Paid for Property Near Fort Worth. |
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| Flatboating Days Along Mississippi; Goods Floating to New Orleans Market From Kentucky; Dallas in Year 1854; Worth Peak Tells of Incidents of Early Days. |
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| Capt. W. R. Conine Tells of Trekked to Texas, 1866, in Ox Cart; Capt. W. B. Conine Settled in Cabin on Childress Creek; In Frontier Days; Two Pairs Boots Traded for Yoke of Three-Year-Old Steers. |
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| Raised Cotton Near Terrell at Four Cents; But it Didn't Pay, Even in Early Days, Says Matt Zollner; Turned to Cattle; Old Resident Tells How He and Family Came Here in 1876. |
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| Fifty Years Ago Territory of Dallas Consisted Mostly of Trees and Broken Ground; Railroads' Advent Signal for Expansion of City; Traffic Increases; Long Strings of Wagons Bring Loads of Buffalo Hides. |
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| Enlisted When 16 and Served Through War; Dallas Man Tells of Hard Times He Encountered in the '60s; Recalls '49 Rush; G. C. Garrison Well Remembers Old "Covered Wagon" Days. |
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| Charm
Lacking in Dallas Back in Early '70s; So Says T. B. Kellow, Who
Passed Up Chance to Settle Here; Went to Farming; Later He Moved
to Deaf Smith County and Likes Panhandle. |
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| Ice Making in Pioneer Dallas Days; Henry Putz Tells How Father Built First Factory; Ancient Machine; Negroes Furnished the Power -- Saloons Were Best Patrons. |
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| [H. N. Lincoln] Lives in Texas 61 Years and Still Likes It; Family, However, Didn't Care for Dallas at First Sight; Teacher is Scalped; Comanche Got Him and His Son in Bell County in Old Days. |
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| Got To Dallas With Ten Cents, Slept on Floor; Had Chance to Buy Acre at Elm and Akard Streets for $20; Couldn't Fool Him; John F. West Thought Person Was Trying to "Work" Him. |
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| He Slept on Blankets on Top of Stove; H. W. Ardinger Tells of Pioneer Days in Sherman; Raids by Indians; Mesquite Bushes Mistaken for Peach Orchard. |
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| Saw Almost All of Texas' Development; L. R. Stroud Came to Kaufman County Way Back in Year 1865; Dallas Was Infant; Two Towns He Lived In Have Vanished in the Course of Progress. |
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| Katy
'Fudged' on Rail Laying, Pioneer Says; Tells Story of How It Won Race for Indian Territory; Old-Time Cyclone; J. M. Naylor Was in One at Savoy That Raised Havoc. |
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| Dallas Like 'Scrub Calf' Back in '70s; Looked as if It Never Would Grow Up, Says R. F. Clardy; County Was Range; Brownwood Man Tells of His Experiences in Early Days. |
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| First Memory Is of Dodging Angered Bison; R. M. Elliott Made for Fence When He Saw Shaggy Beast; In Indian Battles; Old-Timer Had Many Vivid Experiences in Early Texas Days. |
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| Gold Rush to Arizona Led Him to Dallas; T. M. Thompson Landed Here After Many Trials in Old Days; Was Tough Camp; Daily Killings and Other Crime Marked Life at Tombstone. |
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| He Came Here When Dallas Was in Weeds; George. W. Good Settled in County Way Back in 1846; Preached 60 Years; Recently Went Up in Airplane and Saw His 81-Year-Old Home. |
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| [R. H. Waggener] Fled Memphis When Plague Hit in 1873; Thousands Stayed When Death Rate Was 100 a Day; Moved to Dallas; In 1873 "Everybody Had Money and Was Ready to Spend It." |
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| Saw Texas Grow From Wilderness; Dallas Was Ugly Duckling in 1870, Says Visitor [C. S. Southern] Here; In Freighting Days; Man With Hoe Played Havoc With Open Cattle Ranges. |
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| Saw General Steele Lead Big Retreat; Dallas Man [Capt. R. H. Turner] Joined Confederate Army When 18 Years Old; Follows the War; Stirring Times Experienced During Reconstruction Days. |
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| [F.
M. Du Bose] Migrated to Texas in '40 in Ox Wagons; Alabamans Made Journey of Year Into Virgin Wilderness. |
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| Retired Fire Chief Came Here When Dallas Had 300 Citizens and Deer Ate Up Garden Truck |
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| Red-Haired Aunt Object of Indian Attack; Aborigines Thought Auburn-Tressed Girl Most Beautiful; Ague in Early Days; Texas Reeked With Malaria and Some Had Two Daily Chills. [per W. B. Yeary] |
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| Saw Cynthia Ann Parker's Return Home; Dallas Man [J. B. Trammel] Remembers Sul Ross' Rout of Comanche Indians; Born at Birdville; Father Came to Texas in 1850 and Saw Frontier Days. |
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| Had 'Position' Shooing Geese Out of Wheat; D. M. Mitchum Held Many Queer Jobs in His Varied Career; Left Home at 12; Dallas Man Walked 120 Miles to Join Forrest's Cavalry. |
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| $20
Per Acre Land Price in Early Dallas; Citizen Refused Property
Near Baker Hotel Site Years Ago; Cut Much Wood; John F. West
Recalls Early Days of City as Terminal Town. |
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| Pioneer Says Much Moving in Early Days; S. G. Williams Tells How Settlers Kept Wandering, Lived Many Places; Chasing Wolves with Whip, One of Adventures Remembered. |
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| Buffalo
Hunt Annual Event in Early Days; Capt. W. T. Preston of Grand Prairie Tells of Pioneering; After Elbow Room; Native Texan Says Bread and Meat Meant Just That. |
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| One of Swiss Settlers Here Tells of Trip; J. E. Hess in Party Coming to Dallas Before First Railroad; Didn't Like Place; Service on Police Force and as Mail Carrier Narrated. |
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| Pioneer
Tells of Dallas as Country Town; E. A. Renfro Helped Develop Two Texas Counties; Land $2 an Acre; Sixteen Sections Offered for Each New Mile of Railroad. |
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| Main-St. Paul Lot Sells for $2,000 in '81; W. F. Bradley Tells About Days When Dallas Was Village; Big Fire in 1883; Manufacturing Ice Losing Business Here Number of Years. |
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| Education Came Hard to Pioneers; Judge J. F. Holmes Tells What He Went Through. |
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| 'Blue Norther' Not Like It Was in Olden Days; W. A. Work Tells of Some Storms Back in '70s; On Buffalo Hunts; Plenty of Game, but Hard Task to Get it to Dallas. |
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| Old Minstrel Helped Parade Dallas in '81; Joe A. Mills Tells of His First Visit and Location Here. |
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| Oxen Speedy A-Plenty for Early Texans; J. F. Williams Tells How His Father Came Here From Georgia; Raising Wild Hogs; They Grew Fat, but Wouldn't Pay Attention to Callers. |
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| Firemen Go to Circus, Dallas Church Burns; Not Recently, No, It Was Back in the Early Seventies; Pat Phelan Talks; Waterworks Expert for Many Years Tells of Old Days. |
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| Old Chisholm Trail Driving Days Sketched; A Branshaw Also Tells of Pioneering in Northwest; Kansas Trip Taken; Indian Chief Captured by Custer, Attracted Attention. |
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| Worked First Year in Dallas Without Cent; L. D. Busbee, Now a Farmer, Drew His Pay All at Once; Guns in Welcome; Train Held Up as Boy Arrived, Pistol Battle Next Morning. |
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| Quarter Horse Valued Most in Early Days; Jeff G. Jones Tells of Time When Arkansas Was Frontier; Few Amusements; Declares Modern Girl More Pictorially Interesting. |
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| Pioneer
Tells of Advance in Farming Ways; John M. Hayes Saw Its Evolution
From Simplest of Methods; Vote With Gun; Grandfather Was Only "Copperhead" Who Cast His Vote. |
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| Beer Had Hard Row to Hoe in Early Dallas; Came in with Railroads, but Whisky Had Inside Track on It; Old Farming Days; George P. Jackson Tells of Early Settlers in Old-Time Texas. |
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| Forney Famed for Wild Hay in Early Days; J. F. Self Tells of Trip to Indiana by Wagon and Boat; Packs of Wolves; Times When Dallas Was Only Stage Stand are Recalled. |
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| Passengers
in 1872 Fished as Crew Toiled; Railroad Men Filled Engine Tank
from Puddles or Streams; Skunk Kept as Pet; Oldtimer [J. A. West] Tells of Mail-Carrying from Dallas on Star Route. |
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| Early Stores Had to Keep Large Stock; Max Rosenfield Tells of Business Beginning of Dallas; Growth Unusual; Floating Population Left but Merchants Stayed With City. |
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| Established Clarendon's First Store; Morris Rosenfield Went to Work for Sanger Bros. in 1881; Stock Freighted In; Firm Kept Just Ahead of Railroad in Opening New Houses. |
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| 95 Voters at First Election Held in Dallas; J. H. Yeargan, in County 74 Years, Remembers Initial Contest; Population of 475; Father Bought Land Adjoining Love Field for $6 Per Acre. |
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| Indian Scares Drove Him [T. A. Hayes] Out of Bell County; News of Massacre Nearby Made Bell Family Move Their Home; Came Here in 1855; Father Wouldn't Travel Sundays, but Beat All Others In. |
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| Spends Fifty Years Making Dallas Pretty; Paul D. Nix Now Works for Grandchildren of First Employers; Enlisted When 16; He Did Landscape Work on Oak Cliff When Town Was Started. |
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| Lazy Neck Was Misnomer, Old Dallasite Says; No Idlers Among Residents There, Declares F. J. Barry; Old-Time Politics; Voters at Early Day Election Seemed to Outnumber Citizens. |
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| 6-Cent
Cotton Thought Good in 'Olden Days'; Did So Well Guy McClung's Father Started Another Crop; Paradise for Boys; Gillespie County Outdid All Imaginative Stories, He Says. |
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| Mesquite Trip to Dallas Real Journey in '60s; Two Days Were Needed to Come Here and Return by Oxen; Farms Were Scarce; Cattle Raising Only Industry When W. W. Smith Arrived. |
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| One Big Office Plant Enough Idea in 1908; When Second Was Built, Men Said it Couldn't Be Filled; Wild Life in State; Old-Timers Used It for Much of Food, Says Sterling P. Strong. |
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| Tells How He Was Stolen by Sioux Indians; Tacks Tyler on Way to Canada Saw Much of Wild Life; Battled Outlaws; Joined Rangers and Has Many Wounds from Clashes. |
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| Early Times in Old South are Depicted; Pioneer Dallas Realtor Also Tells of Civil War Days; To Texas in 1905; J. A. Woodard Declares Faith in City Already Proven. |
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| City of Paris Called Pinhook in Early Days; J. N. Humphrey, North Texas Pioneer, Talks of Olden Times; Plenty of Game; Prairie Fires Believed to Have Given Soil Black Tinge. |
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| Texas Society Much Mixed in Early Eighties; Modern Day Classification Unknown Among Early Citizens; Rodeo is Outdone; Cowboys Getting Trail Herds Ready Did Real Western Work, [per G. W. Fox] |
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| Angel Maker Name of Early Dallas Train; Seymour Myers Tells of Coming West Half Century Ago; Black Friday Good; Easterner Amazed at "Four Bits" and Numbers of Negroes. |
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| Ferry Across Trinity Here in Early Days; El Paso Man [E. T. Stoker] Tells About Visiting Dallas When a Village; Farming Difficult; First Lancaster Cotton Hauled to Railroad at Kosse. |
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| Former Texas Ranger Tells of Early Days; John D. Rains in Fights With Cortina Along Rio Grande; Also in Civil War; New Light on Killing of Sam Bass by Dallas Man. |
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| [W. B. Yeary] Tells About Settling Old Farmersville; Original Town of Sugar Hill Earned Name in Unusual Manner; Children Unshod; First Horse Wagon and Sewing Machine Were Real Sensations. |
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| 2 Fairs Held in Dallas in Early Times; Promoters Fell Out and Gave Separate State Shows; Success for Both; Those That Attended One Wanted to See What Other Doing. [per W. R. Roberts] |
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| Horse Stealing Best Sport of Texas Indians; Judge W. N. Coombes Tells of Early Days in Dallas Area; Big Flood in 1833; Grandfather Waited Two Months for River Rise to Subside. |
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| Longhorns and Native Horses Given Praise; Should Have Been Foundation for Genuine American Stock; To Texas in Wagon; But Dr. [A. C.] Gillespie Doesn't Remember Much About Journey. |
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| Van Zandt Was Last Frontier Preceding War; E. P. Sides of Dallas Tells of When Deer Were Plentiful; 3 Miles to School; Bloodshed Over County Seat Change Was Barely Averted. |
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| Veteran Says Fiddle Tunes Outclass Jazz; Camp Sterling Price Gatherings Feature Old Square Dances; Ante-Bellum Days; W. H. Harrell, 82, Tells of Conditions During Slavery Times. |
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| Straw Put on Early Street Car Floors; Hugo Arons Tells When Dallas Had 8,000 Population; Saloons Plentiful; Sale of Land on Elm for $20,000 Was Talk of Entire Town. |
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| $150,000
Lot Offered for $1,500 in '82; Dallas Real Estate Has Made Big
Strides in Forty-Five Years; Early Elections; Furnished Three or Four Weeks' Excitement, Says J. H. Webster. |
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| Early Businessmen of Dallas Given Praise; Old Residents Worked Heart and Soul for Advancement of City; Thos. Buford Talks; Tells of Early Concerns That Developed With Passing Years. |
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| Horse Lost and Dallas Went Broke; Owned by Sheriff 50 Years Ago and Whole Town Bet on Him; Won Next Day; But Nobody Had Money to Back Him Again, Says Wood Ramsey. |
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| Panic Times Found Dallas Without Cash; A. F. Slater Says One Couldn't Get $10 on $40,000 Security; To Texas in 1879; Tried Sheep Herding, but Found Its Solitude Intolerable. |
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| Tramped it to Texas in Wild, Woolly Times; J. H. Capers' Boots Were Too Stiff, So He Carried Them; Then Studied Law; Only Two of Dallas Men He Practiced With Still Living. |
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| Tough Towns Near Dallas in Old Days; Blackjack Grove Barred Nothing but Cockfights and Craps; 'Not for Gentlemen'; Killings Were All Right, but Dice Were Considered Low. |
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| Ox-Wagon
and Flintlock Gun Days Recalled; J. M. Keith's Forbears Came to Texas Way Back in 1845; Was Wild Region; Compass and Stars Used to Steer Way Across Country. |
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| Texas Mills Were Run by Horsepower; W. R. Bowen Tells of Difficulties of Farming in Early Days; Five-cent Cotton; Grocers Often Bartered Gallons of Whisky for a Yearling. |
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| Living
Cheap During Lowest Business Ebb; Workers in Dallas Saw Hope in Lotteries in early '80s; City Thought Dead; Simon Loeb Describes How Progress Came with News and Fair. |
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| Dallas
Realty Went Begging During 1883; Town Dead as Could Be, J. B. Mayo, Says; 10,000 Population; Developing of Early Additions Described by Kentuckian. |
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| Frontier Days Described by Pioneer Texan; R. S. Carothers' Father First to Gin Cotton by Steam Power; No Lack of Game; Tells of How 3 Bears and Panther Slain Before Breakfast. |
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| Early Wet and Dry Battle in Texas Bitter;, C. W. Harned Describes Struggles in Dallas of Y. M. C. A. |
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| Market
Street Once Dallas' East Border; John E. Hess Says Making Living Not Hard in Early Days; Mayor Put in Jail; Governor Orders Release When Citizens Show Opposition. |
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| Pioneer Tells of Early-Day Travel Woes; O. F. Yarbrough Describes Troubles Faced by Stage Lines; Big Profit in Corn; Lawlessness of Guards at Tyler War Prison Cited. |
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| Clerks' Hours Long in Early Dallas Times; Kentuckian [Sam Freshman] Tells About Coming to Texas in Start of '80s; Jobs Hard to Find; Wages Low, but Cost of Living Also Less Than at Present. |
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| Recalls Time Deer Roamed Around Home; S. J. Houghton's Father Sought Fortune in Early Texas; Wild Horse Herds; Large Crowd Present to See First Cotton in State. |
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| Came to Dallas 54 Years Ago and Still Here; M. P. Hayes Tells About Early Days, When Rails Were New; Old-Time Citizens; Wagon Yards Were Valuable Property in Young Texas City. |
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| 16,000 People Dallas Claim 50 Years Ago; Interesting Facts Shown in Early Directory of M. P. Hayes; Four Daily Papers; Forty-Six Saloons Listed Among Establishments of City. |
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| Ferry Turned To Toll Bridge At Low Water; Charge to Cross Trinity Was Same Under Either Plan; How City Started; French Town Residents Didn't Like Long Trip to Distillery. [per T. R. Yeargan] |
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| East
Texas of Pioneer Days a 'Paradise'; Fred Williams Describes Beauty and Richness of Territory. |
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| $125 Monthly Wage Princely in Early Days; Year's Farming Results Made Sherman Man [Ice B. Reeves] Try Selling. |
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| Little Doing in Dallas in Last of '70s; Place Wide Open, With Free Lunches Big Attraction; Only One Car Line; Charles Henning Tells of Times Here Between Two Booms. |
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| Man Who Came From Alabama Texas Pioneer; Sam C. Hardin, Now of Dallas, Blacksmith of Early Days; Official at Ferris; Name on Ranger Rolls, Although Never Actually Served. |
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| Blue
Norther Not Bad Now, Cullom Avers; John H. Cullom Tells of Early
Day Rain Which Came Horizontal; Here for 52 Years; Towns of Duck Creek and Embree Com- bined to Form Garland. |
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| Lick Skillet And Grab All Once in Texas; Dallas Man [A. C. Long] Tells About Wild Times and Towns in South Texas; Credit Business; Farmers Had No Cash and Crop Failures Hard on Communities. |
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| [Part 1] Indians Feared Less Than U. S. General; R. G. Gaines Describes Hardships During Civil War; Fled From Home; Much Confidence Placed in Dogs to Provide Warnings. |
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| [Part 2] War Over Five Months Before Word Received; R. G. Gaines Continues Story of Texas in Early Days; Return of Soldiers; Town of Searsville Ends with Advent of Valley Mills. |
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| Texas Winter of '66-7 One Mild All Way; R. G. Gaines Tells About Mail and Bar Reaching Valley Mills; Last Indian Fight; Ku Klux, Apple Peddlers and Wild Turkeys are Items. |
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| Tells Woes of Early Cattle Trail Blazers; R. G. Gaines Continues Narrative of Texas in Pioneer Days; Neighbors Trusted; Large Amounts Loaned Without Notes or Security. |
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| All Invited to Weddings in Pioneer Days; R. G. Gaines Continues Narrative of Texas of Long Ago; Had Rude Justice; Year 1869 One of Activity and Prosperity for Settlers. |
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| 3 Cows Paid for Clock by Early Texans; And Their Calves Went With Them to Secure Good Timepieces; Herds Mavericked; Easy Way to Cattle Riches Lasted Just One Year. |
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| Gaines Tells About Driving Cattle North; Taking Herd of 2,800 Steers to Abilene Thrilling Feat; Trail Wide Path; No Banks in Cowtowns, but No Fear of Bandits Either. |
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| Twenty Years on Firing Line Pioneer's Lot; Adolph Landolt of Dallas Fought for South When 14; Fought the Indians; Service Includes Time as Texas Ranger and in Navy. |
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| Year of 1873 Sees Passing of Log Cabin; Cooking Stove, Sewing Machine Also Come to North Texas; Tin Dipper Man; Movement of Cattle to North Also Reaches Its Maximum. |
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| Recalls Early Days Spent in Cherokee Co.; Dallasite [S. A. Fain] Relates Primitive Existence at Larissa; Progress Noted; Development of Schools, Rail Facilities and Industry Gradual. |
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| [R. G. Gaines] Ride in Wagon 130 Miles for Inauguration; Many Made Longer Trip to See Coke Become Texas Governor; Honors for Jurors; Esteemed Great Dignity for Settler to Sit in Early Trials. |
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| Dallas
in Grip of Hard Times 54 Years Ago; E. Maus Visits Dallas After Half Century of Absence; Remembers Firms; Very Few Persons Could Vision Any Future for Town. |
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| Dallas Livest Place in 1873, Says Kansan [Charles Saunders of Wichita]; Population Was Greater Than Accommodations in Early Days; Lumber in Demand; Was Sold as Fast as It Was Received With Buildings Needed. |
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| Scant Market For Crops in Pioneer Days; J. V. Wright Tells About Life Around Dallas in Late '50s; 'Miraculous Hogs'; Keeping Wild Geese and Prairie Chickens Out of Fields Big Job. |
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| First
Steam Gin in Dallas Lost by Fire; Courthouse Also Three Times Destroyed by Same Means; Land Values Grow; Rapid Increase in Price in Early Days, Told by Jack Fisher. |
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| Traveling Man 50 Years Ago Had No Cinch; A. Dinkelspiel, Veteran Salesman, Tells of His Early Experiences; To Dallas in 1892; Graphic Word Picture of Conditions in City at That Date Given. |
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| Tells of Early Newspapers in Texas Field; Rotarian of Arkansas Relates His Experiences in Texas; Dallas in 1881; City Hall Was a Small Frame Structure -- City Starts to Grow. |
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| First Forney Cafe Operator Tells of War; Bees Help Federals Win Battle From Confederates; Art Combination; House Painter Helps Put on Shows and Stages Horse Races. |
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| Hunt
County Shy of Rains in Early Days; O. F. Yarbrough Tells of Crop
Failures in the Late '40s; Many Quagmires; John Whittaker, Tyler, Famous as Racer in East Texas. |
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| [G. H. Winfrey] Opened Store to Start Town of South Bend -- Blacksmith and Doctor Joined Dallasite in Early Days There; War Dance Helps; First Boom Due to One Staged by Tonkawas for July 4. |
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| Praises Sung of West Texas by Dallas Man; J. L. Strickland Tells of Early Drouths at San Saba; Crop Sold for $5.00; Later Development of Jones and Foard Counties Sketched. |
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| Texas Rangers Had Hard Life in Early Days; Thomas Sieker of Dallas Tells of Adventures After War; Bad Men in West; Would Not Eat Prairie Dogs Until Told They Were Squirrels. |
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| Bullfighting
in Early Days Sport Events; Wild Animals Then Battled Each Other, Says Kerr Pioneer [J. J. Denton]; Watchers in Tree; Climbed to Safety Before Cattle Came to Scene of Contests. |
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| Denison Wild Town in 1872, Pioneer Says; J. F. Propst Tells About Trip to Texas on Freight Train; Dallas Too Dull; Real Estate Man Tried Hard to Sell City Property Cheap. |
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| Fire Fighting in Early Days in City Told; W. E. Lacy Relates Difficulties in Quelling Flames; California Hunter; As Boy He Bagged Game in That State for Ex-Texan to Market. |
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| Before Wagon Came Hauling Done by Sled; Primitive Methods for Farming Are Recalled by Dallasite; County Seat War; Witnessed Historic Near-Hostilities in Van Zandt County. |
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| Early Days of Journalism in City Recalled; Trial and Tribulation in Newspaper Business for Old-Timers; Originating News; Unexpected Outcome of Big "Scoop" Detailed by E. G. Myers. |
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| On Railroads in Early Days Out of Dallas; Carl G. Smith Tells of His Experience When City Was Young; Bass Robbed Train; Old-Timer's Friend Was in Charge of Mails During Holdup. |
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| Wild
Cattle in Old Days Were Cotton Pests; Eating Lint From Bales, They Gave Trouble to Texas Growers; Telephone Pioneer; Dallasite [R. H. Walls] Tribulations as Operator of Switchboard. |
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| Glimpse Given of Dallas Seen in Early Days; D. C. McCord Tells of Its Expansion During Residence; Fire Trails Church; Congregation Moves 3 Times When Places of Worship Burn. |
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