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March for health or financial reasons, but many others had joined us en e gathered before the route. Several hundred of us had walked from the beginning. Our number towering majestic obelisk had grown to 1,800 by the time we got to Washington. And a few had that was the Washington walked every step of the way, refusing to bus those passages where the March was refused permission to walk as a group because of safety reasons. Monument in Washington Over 50 of us Marchers were senior citizens. There were 60 children with D.C. on Nov. 15, 1986. the March. The other marchers ranged in age between the two groups. We We were members of the Great Peace March. For eight and a half months, were from all walks of life, represented every imaginable profession, had beginningW in Los Angeles, we had walked 3,701 miles, across 17 states, to diverse religious beliefs, and were from all the states and 11 countries. increase public awareness of the insanity of nuclear warfare. President Our feet kept pace with the slow beat of a Buddhist drum as we walked Reagan refused to have an audience with us, understandably. His baby was silently down 16th Street. The melancholy skirl of a bagpipe followed us to Star Wars with its trillion-dollar taxpayer dollars poured down a futile drain. a rally in Lafayette Park across from the White House. The program might could stop some nuclear missiles aimed at this country. Some of us visited the nearby Vietnam Memorial where I was over- Some marchers sneaked past the guards and hung their shoes on the fence whelmed by the sadness of the loss of lives of those thousands of young surrounding the White House. Some marchers had dropped out of the people killed in that senseless war. Please see page 6 May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 5

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From page 4 Churches, community groups (and one Indian tribe) had pot lucks for Before the day ended, some 20,000 friends, relatives and supporters us. Feeding a group of our size was not easy. had joined us to light candles from the Hiroshima Flame which a young People opened up their homes to us to spend the night. Or to take man had carried all the way across the country. The candles were set baths. Also, communities and businesses sheltered us when we were wet afloat in the Reflecting Pool before the Washington Monument. and cold, or offered rooms, baths, swimming pools for our use. And our final rally was held at the Lincoln Memorial. Food, clothing and money was given by those who supported our I didn’t hear many of the speakers as the merchandising department set views and by those who didn’t. up tables as we had at every rally across the country. I sold T-shirts as I remember the fairness and impartiality of the media who followed fast as I could hand one to a person and accept their money. our progress across the country. Speakers included a senator who brought a proclamation signed by The Peace March left behind a path of good will, as well as other senators. A congressman said, “handing over the power of nuclear trees. Peace Trees were planted in communities we passed through. We weapons to the hands of a small number of men” was the most radical also left a clean path. Marchers picked up tons of trash as we walked. injustice ever perpetrated on this planet. Carl Sagan condemned Star And every campsite was cleaner when we left than when we entered. c Wars as a scientific absurdity. A nuclear physicist, a retired major general and Rev. Jesse Jackson were among noted speakers. Marchers who spoke included one marcher who had had to leave the march because of cancer and a 15-year-old girl who began a peace petition when she was 12. She called on Reagan and Gorbachev to listen to the children who wanted a chance to grow up and not perish in a nuclear war. The End Was Not THE END! We had reached Washington, but the effects rippled out, just as a pond ripples when a stone is thrown in. We had contacted a million or more people through personal contact, in speeches, rallies or via news media. And always with the plea to contact your elected representatives to urge them to end the nuclear threat. Six million Russians stayed home from work one day demanding an end to the arms race. A Peace March with 230 Americans and 200 Russians walked from Leningrad to Moscow. A huge rally got worldwide attention. Reagan and Gorbachev did meet and sign a treaty that ended the threat of the red button being pushed to send nuclear missiles toward the other country. Many marchers went on to participate in anti-war or peace movements in this country and abroad. I learned many things from being part of the March that can be used THE by groups, large or small, or nations. Tolerance and respect no matter what nationality, color, age, religion or political beliefs. Decisions made by consensus, not majority, are possible. The key is to listen to others with your heart, not with the intent of converting them to END what you want, and to speak from your heart. I found that when I was truly listened to, I could go along with what was best for group good. In disagreements, people went to mediation with a trained mediator who acted as go-between until all the feelings were aired and a resolution WAS reached. This alleviates the need for suing in a court of law, or using a gun or other weapon. Good memories for me include children who set up a lemonade and cold water stand beside the route of the March. A senior citizen on social NOT security who donated a jar of change she’d carefully saved since she knew the March was coming through her town. She walked to our camp to bring the money. A small 5&10 store in a small town in Pennsylvania gave each march- THE er a small gift – a washcloth, a tube of toothpaste, etc. Farmers brought fresh produce and eggs to the March. (Once, I helped crack 12 dozen eggs for our breakfast.) END May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 7 "Our Family Taking Care Of Your Family"

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ing soul in this country,” Biddy said, shaking his head in from Bobby’s backside. disbelief. Bobby never knew why they were forced to Ignoring the incident, Uncle Jess called him out to he named her son, Bobby plow under good stalks of corn. work cattle again. This time, it was for some bronco Ray, for her older brother, Cattle were better fare than farming and a teenage busting at his ranch just outside of Graford. Lera stead- Bobby helped to build a fence around a parcel of leased fastly refused to let Bobby go. With some begging, SRaymond. Many years earli- land on Graford’s west side. Biddy put him on mule- Biddy and Lera gave in, knowing that several boys had er, Lera Williams Erwin lost her back to string out lengths of barbwire across the proper- made good money breaking wild ponies for Uncle Jess. ty’s full length. After a length was unrolled, measured, And besides, Bobby truly wanted some of the action. He brother to appendicitis and she and cut, then Bobby would ride the mule back to the got it when his bronc ran headlong through a fence, cut wanted to remember Raymond spool of barbwire, harness another strand, and repeat the his left knee wide open from one side to the other, and Williams. And so the day came on process. It was hard work and about the time Bobby put Bobby down hard. Biddy scooped him up and took decided his old mule wasn’t going to make it, he looked him home for Lera to stitch back together. She worried July 10, 1928, when Lera had a around just in time to see a tall power poll crash to the about her Bobby Ray growing up strong and healthy. son, Bobby Ray Erwin. ground. She wanted him strong to withstand an operation or bout He looked more like his father, Biddy Lafayette, with Electric power-lines curled on the ground all around of disease and survive it. Lera couldn’t forget her broth- his broad shoulders and big hands readymade for the him popping and hissing like angry snakes. Seems his er Raymond was too weak to survive his ordeal and plow and axe. As time went by he came to have his barbwire had sawed the bottom of the pole clean that’s why she protected her Bobby Ray. mother’s coal black curly hair, dark complexion, set through. Biddy offered to pay the power company for That same year Graford High School FFA (Future jawline, and handsome features. Farming and ranching the damages because he knew the Federals wouldn’t pay Farmers Of America) awarded Bobby the blue ribbon was their lives with little else to do in Graford, Texas, for it. When asked, Bobby said, “Kind-a seemed like for his prize bull, Buster. And, it was Buster’s award during the Great Depression. FDR said it was over, but that old mule WAS pulling hard, there at the last.” that prompted his attention towards the Fort Worth Fat it lingered on for years to torture and starve the masses. Lera’s only thought was that her son was safe from Stock Show and Rodeo. Problem was he was broke, and Everybody in the family worked hard. Lera was a harm. that blue ribbon wouldn’t pay him squat. So, Bobby schoolteacher and Biddy a stonemason building the Palo That summer Uncle Jess Ragel hired Bobby to round went back to work on Uncle Jess’s ranch. After school, Pinto Courthouse for the WPA. Even his sisters, Biddy up cattle from the Brazos River bottoms. He was bring- he cut and packaged meat for Uncle Morrow in the Jean and Patsy, hoed weeds in the garden along with ing in the last of the strays when this one particular old Graford grocery store butcher shop. On weekends, their cooking and cleaning chores. A 9-year-old Bobby contrary cow hid behind a mesquite thicket. He’d been Bobby did whatever odd jobs the Eubanks wanted him had the job of milking four cows, canning it, loading the practicing his skill with a lariat rope, so he gave it try. to do down at Graford Bank. Often times he was sent milk cans onto a wagon, and then driving the team to Making a wide lasso he threw a loop over her head with out to the Eubank ranch where he hauled hay and the railway switch station for delivery to Mineral Wells. exacting aim on the first throw, which caught her cleaned stalls, but it still wasn’t enough. Roosevelt’s economic disasters forced Biddy and unawares. And, it spooked her! She jumped straight up, Seventy miles was a long way to walk from Graford Bobby to scratch out a little vegetable garden, sell milk bellowed, and then that old cow went to bucking in a to Ft. Worth. But as luck would have it, a man needed and butter, raise livestock, and grow corn. And, it was sideways spin like a rodeo bronc. Not to be outdone, help loading cattle in his trailer and it just so happened their small cornfield what started it all. Government Bobby grabbed a strong grip on his lariat just long that this same man was headed for the Fat Stock Show. agents measured and scrutinized the little cornfield and enough to wrap two loops around the saddle horn. Like stowaways on a cruise ship, Bobby and his friends it didn’t meet their standards. So, FDR sent his Federals Now… he had her for sure. At about that time, his lay inside the cattle trailer with their feet propped up on knocking on Biddy’s front door. It was a hot day in saddle cinch broke sending him over the pony’s head soft straw enjoying their ride on a grand adventure to the August, which was why they stood on the front porch, and right smack dab into that mesquite thicket. And, big city of Ft. Worth. 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It seemed 620th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron where Bob fantastic to believe that a camera could be mounted in served two years with a promotion to staff sergeant. the nose of a missile and guided by a handheld joystick Even with frequent letters of correspondence, Lera was from a cockpit display. In technical jargon, Pave Tack sick with worry until his return back home to Graford. was an electro-optical targeting pod mounted underneath At North Texas State and Texas Christian universities the F-111 aircraft. It used a laser and a forward-looking he furthered his education in electronic engineering and infrared beam to find and designate targets for laser- was later hired at General Dynamics, an aircraft manu- guided bombs and other precision-guided missiles. It facturing facility in Ft. Worth. was a formidable weapon in the USAF arsenal and it It was at a church social in Mineral Wells that Bob came on-line just in time to be used in the War On met Wynell at the end of a weeklong meeting. Back in Terror. those days they simply called it a “meeting” when guest Libyan leader Col. Maummar Gaddafi had terrorized speakers were invited to preach each weekday night. Israeli, British and American airports, as well as vessels Wynell Odom had a sweet but sometimes meddling old in the Mediterranean, for years. More recently, he threat- From page 8 aunt, Orpha Odom, who liked to play cupid; and on this ened acts of terrorism on American tourists engaged in merry-go-round and Ferris wheel, playing games of particular occasion it was very sweet of her to introduce air travel throughout the region. The final straw came chance, and eating candied apples, peanuts, and cotton Bob to Wynell because the two hit it off immediately. when Libya admitted its role in the bombing of a West candy. They toured the newly built Will Rogers Wynell invited Bob to meet her Odom and Taylor Berlin disco in which two off-duty American soldiers Coliseum and the rows and rows of livestock barns. For families down in the Live Oak Community of southern were killed on April 5, 1986. Only 10 days later, April meals, they made their money cleaning stalls in the Palo Pinto County and as southern girls will do, she left 15, President Ronald Reagan ordered an attack on show barns, and at night they slept on beds of straw Bob with the men. Like John Wayne himself, Ike Taylor Libyan terrorist training sights with Air Force 48th inside the hay barn. The Graford Cowboy didn’t place in was a 78-year-old family patriarch and cattle rancher Tactical F-111F Fighter Wing of bombers. the bareback bronc riding competition, but it was an who had gathered his sons together for a roundup. They The bombing raid killed 45 Libyan soldiers and offi- adventure any boy would relish for a lifetime, and were huddled inside a corral when Bob walked in all cials, and, in total, five IL-76 Libyan transports, 14 MiG Bobby took in every bit of it. He thought it best not to spiffy in his Sunday-go-to-meetin’ clothes. Jet Fighters, two helicopters, and five ground radar sta- tell Lera about riding broncs or she’d have been wor- Introductions were made and the Taylor boys warned tions were destroyed. The mission was a success and ried. Bob to step back whilst they roped a rascally young once again the Graford Cowboy had perfect aim. This Later that summer, back home in Graford, Bobby cow, because she could be dangerous. The Taylor boys time, with Pave Tack radar in lieu of his lariat rope, picked peaches as fast as he could. He was late for his made several attempts but none could land a loop over Bob, GD, and the United States Air Force, under the date with a high school sweetheart. One last peach hung the cow’s head. They passed the rope around to each direction of the President, put an end to the Libyan high above his head from the top limb and he wasn’t other trying over and over again, yet she proved to be a threat of terrorism. c about to get the ladder for just one peach. Time was slippery heifer able to dodge the rope at every turn. wasting and she wouldn’t wait forever, but that one Then, Bob asked to have a go at it and in response, the peach enticed him, teased him, and even challenged Taylor boys grinned at each other. Wynell’s father, J.L. him. Climbing out over the small limb, he looked down Odom, jumped in and said they should give this Air in surprise at how far it was to the ground below when Force boy a try, just to be sporting about it. suddenly it snapped with a loud cracking sound and he Bob swung out a wide loop, raised his right arm, and fell. Bobby hit the ground awkwardly and immediately with a few swings over his head the lariat rope sailed knew that he’d broken his right arm below the elbow. through the air, across the corral, and over the cow’s But, with a smile of satisfaction, he firmly held that head. His exacting aim secured her around the neck in a precious last peach in his left hand and took a big bite tight loop on his first throw. Then, the Graford Cowboy out of it. Lera walked him down the street to the doc- tied off the other end of the rope on a nearby fence post tor’s office to have the bone set. She was still worried in a perfect half-hitch slipknot. She struggled and about her Bobby Ray’s health, but it didn’t slow him bawled in a vain attempt to free herself while down. Bobby soon left the doctor’s office with his arm the Taylor boys dropped their collective jaws in in a plaster cast, headed out to pick up his sweetheart for disbelief. their date on the town. “I’m better on horseback,” Bob said, in an It was the fall of 1945, the war had ended, and Bobby humble, yet matter-of-fact nod. With hat cocked was too young to enlist. He needed his parent’s signa- backwards and hands on his hips, Ike Taylor ture to join the Army Air Corps and Biddy was reluctant studied the boy and as he moved a chaw of to sign the release form. Predictably, Lera wouldn’t con- tobacco from one side of his mouth to the other sider it. In her mind’s eye, the very thing she dreaded he said, “We’ll let Bob do all the roping.” most was happening to her. If he left her she couldn’t Bob and Wynell were married March 31, take care of him. 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fter the end of the Civil War ry of ranching made their beginnings wife Mariah R. (Brown) Allison. His ing it. After a confrontation in which in 1865 and during the period here in the hard scrabble hills, valleys father was a Presbyterian minister and the corporal broke a vase that had been Aof Reconstruction that fol- and prairies of the Brazos River coun- also farmed and raised cattle and sheep given to Clay’s mother by his father, he lowed, many Texas men began return- try on the western edge of Cross to support his family. Clay’s father died retrieved a rifle and killed him. As with ing to their homes and families along Timbers. Men like Charles Goodnight, when he was 5 years old. many stories relating to Clay Allison, the vast frontier to resume what was Oliver Loving, John Hittson, George Even at an early age Clay was known truth was seldom based on facts that left of their lives and aspirations. and C.C. Slaughter, Marcus Dalton, for wild mood swings and a quick tem- could be verified but, nonetheless, they Settlers who had vacated the region W.C. McAdams, the Jowell and Wilson per many thought was the result of became part of the folklore that sur- during the war now came back to find brothers, George Bevers, Jere Hart and being kicked in the head by a mule. He rounded his infamous name. their longhorn cattle herds had the Cowdens were just a few of the helped on the family farm until the age Learning of the opportunity to find increased but were scattered. many men who participated in the great of 21 when the Civil War broke out. On work and land in Texas, Clay, along Unbranded maverick longhorns by the roundups that would forge their names Oct. 15, 1861, he enlisted in Capt. W.H. with brothers John and Monroe and his hundreds of thousands now roamed free in the annals of trail driving history. Jackson’s Artillery Battery of the sister Mary and husband Lewis for the taking. Trailing cattle to more There were no fences, few permanent Confederate States of America. Coleman, left their homes in lucrative out-of-state markets and rail- water sources, and mostly open range- Three months later on Jan. 15, 1862, and ventured west. On crossing the Red heads had already begun and often at lands for use by anyone who could he was discharged because of what was River near Denison, Texas, Clay the expense of the lives of those who gather, brand, herd and corral their referred to as an old head injury suf- became outraged at the price ferryman sought great fortunes. stock and periodically trail them to dis- fered when he was a child. He was Zachary Colbert attempted to charge Bad economic times in the South fol- tant markets. Some of the methods used described as being “Incapable of per- for his services. After an altercation that lowing the Civil War also enticed a for gathering and handling free-ranging forming the duties of a soldier because left Colbert unconscious, Clay and his wave of emigrants to venture west to cattle were developed during this peri- of a blow received many years ago. party rode free into the Lone Star State. the “land-of-beginning-again” – Texas. od and are still used to this day. A few Emotional or physical excitement pro- They eventually traveled to Palo Pinto Many Civil War veterans also came of these cattlemen and their families duces paroxymals of a mixed character, County and settled on Hittson Bend into the region to take their chances, put down roots here; others moved on partially epileptic and partial maniacal.” located on the Brazos River east of the despite the fact that Native Americans further west to stake their claim in the Determined to participate in the war, he town of Palo Pinto near Oaks Crossing. still held tenaciously to their ancestral vast western reaches of the burgeoning reenlisted on Sept. 22, 1862, in the 9th Allison soon hired on as a cowhand for homelands. People who had already United States. Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Company Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight “Gone To Texas” sent back glowing Members of the less savory elements F of Col. Jacob B. Biffle’s 19th and may have been one of the 18 drov- reports to family and friends about the of society including outlaws, gunmen, Tennessee Cavalry and served as a spy ers with Goodnight and Loving when opportunities awaiting them as huge carpetbaggers, whiskey peddlers, want- (scout) under “the wizard of the saddle” they undertook the first cattle drive land grant colonies with vast holdings ed men and desperate women also General . At the made along the Goodnight-Loving Trail formed offering cheap land to those arrived in Palo Pinto County to hone end of the war he surrendered with to New Mexico in 1866. who would come. Men who could rope, their trades. When Robert Clay Allison Forrest’s men on May 4, 1865, at During the summer of 1867, cattle brand, herd and drive cattle were in arrived during the fall of 1865, he, like Gainesville, Ala., and was briefly held herd traffic increased along the short supply. Many early cattlemen many other Civil War veterans, had as a prisoner of war. Allison and the Goodnight-Loving Trail as word of competed for these “cowboys” to work come west to escape the troubled South other men under Forrest’s command lucrative markets in New Mexico and on their ranges and help drive large and the trials and tribulations of war were paroled on May 19th and allowed Colorado sent more and more long- herds to market hundreds of miles that surely hung heavy on his shoul- to return to their homes. horns along the route. Goodnight and away. ders. Clay Allison is thought to have left Loving drove another herd southwest Palo Pinto County has often been Allison was born on a farm near Tennessee for Texas after killing a cor- along the trail toward New Mexico that called “The Cradle of the Cattle Waynesboro in Wayne County, Tenn., poral from the 3rd Illinois Cavalry summer followed closely by a herd Industry,” and rightfully so. Some of on Sept. 2, 1841, the fourth of nine Regiment who had arrived at the belonging to John Simpson Chisum and the most prominent names in the histo- children of Jeremiah Scotland and his Allison farm with the intention of seiz- Please see page 13 May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 13

From page 12 fighter continued to grow with more pistol to kill Clay but was shot first by John and Monroe on their ranch located driven by his brother Pittser. Ten miles encounters in the bars and saloons of the quick-acting Allison. They buried 12 miles northeast of Mobeetie, Texas, behind Chisum’s herd was another northern New Mexico. He became him behind the Clifton House. One of at the junction of the Washita River and belonging to John Nathan Hittson and close friends with Mason Bowman after Colbert’s friends who came looking for Gageby Creek in present Hemphill further back a third belonging to being outdrawn by him during a friend- Allison after the killing mysteriously County. On one wild drunken spree, Marcus Dalton from Palo Pinto County. ly competition. Bowman taught Allison disappeared and was never heard from witnesses told of seeing Clay Allison This herd was driven by none other the fine art of the quick draw and later again. When asked why he had dined ride naked through the streets of than Clay Allison. became sheriff of Colfax County. In with a man that likely wanted to kill Mobeetie wearing nothing but his hol- Knowing that other herds were on the April 1871, Allison and two other men him, Allison replied, “Because I didn’t ster and revolver. It was there that he same trail and wanting to secure the stole 12 government mules belonging want to send a man to hell on an empty acquired his enduring moniker “Wolf of best prices for their cattle, Loving and to Fort Union commander Gen. Gordon stomach.” the Washita.” One-armed Bill Wilson left Goodnight Granger. When they again attempted to On Oct. 30, 1875, during the Colfax In 1883 he sold his ranch near with the herd and went ahead to tie up steal mules during the fall of that year, County War, it was alleged Allison led Mobeetie and moved to Pope’s Well contracts for their beef. It was on that the military caught them in the act and the lynch mob that hung Cruz Vega near where the Pecos River crosses the trip that Loving was wounded by chased them from the corral. During from a telegraph pole near Cimarron Texas-New Mexico line 50 miles north- Indians; he later died of his wounds at the excitement, Clay accidently shot for killing Methodist circuit-rider west of Pecos, Texas, in present Loving Ft. Sumner, N.M. After that drive himself in the foot but escaped to a Franklin J. Tolby. Allison had joined a County. A spring located 100 miles east Allison returned to Palo Pinto County hideout. From there he sent his friend faction of local citizens known as the of the Pecos River where Allison estab- and worked for his brother-in-law, Davy Crockett, a nephew of the famous Colfax County Ring who clashed with lished his headquarters was later named Lewis Coleman, and Irwin W. Lacy. American frontiersman, to fetch Doctor new owners of the huge Maxwell Land Allison Spring and is now usually cov- When Coleman and Lacy moved Longfellow from Cimarron. Allison Grant and a group of lawyers, politi- ered by the waters of Red Bluff their cattle to a spread in Colfax eventually healed but spent the rest of cians and businessmen known as the Reservoir. County in north central New Mexico in his life with a noticeable limp. Santa Fe Ring. When the land grant’s On July 3, 1887, Clay Allison was 1870, Clay and his brother John helped In 1873 he eloped with young new owners began forcing established killed when a load of supplies he was drive the herd. In payment, they were America Medora McCulloch, who lived landholders and squatters to vacate hauling shifted on the wagon he was given 300 head of cattle. Clay took his with her guardians Mr. and Mrs. A.J. their properties, an all-out war ensued. driving causing it to overturn. A wagon share and homesteaded a ranch 9 miles Young on what is now the Vermejo Many settlers turned to Allison for help wheel rolled over his neck killing him north of present day Springer, N.M., at Ranch in northern New Mexico, and his in settling the issue, which he did. The instantly. He was buried the following the junction of the Vermejo and brother John married her sister. During town of Cimarron became the strong- day in the Pecos Cemetery where a Canadian rivers. The Allison brothers their marriage, Clay and his wife had hold for the group and Allison became large crowd gathered for his service. soon became well known around two daughters, Patti Dora Allison and one of the leaders in the fight. In 1887 On Aug. 28, 1975, Clay Allison’s Cimarron and the small gold mining Clay Pearl Allison. the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the remains were moved to Pecos Park town of Elizabethtown where lawless- In 1874, Chuck Colbert, nephew of owners of the land grant forcing many located just west of the Pecos Museum. ness was the rule. Clay’s frequent the ferryman Clay had assaulted back settlers off their lands. Much of the dis- His gravestone reads: “Robert C. rowdy and drunken escapades on in 1866 when he crossed the Red River puted lands became large ranches and a Allison, CSA, Co F 9th Tennessee Saturday nights in those communities into Texas, found Allison in Cimarron, portion is now the Philmont Boy Scout Cavalry, Sept 2 1840, July 3 1877, soon gave him a reputation throughout N.M. He sought revenge to settle the Ranch. Gentleman, Gunfighter.” A second the region as a man not to The following year during December marker was later added at the foot of be crossed. His violent 1876, Clay and his brother John his grave that reads: “He never killed a temper and mood swings stopped at a saloon in Las Animas, man that did not need killing.” It was made him a dangerous Colo., where they were confronted by estimated that Allison had accommo- man. Constable Charles Faber who demand- dated at least 20 men of such need dur- During the fall of 1870 a ed they comply with the local ordi- ing his lifetime. man by the name of nance that prohibited carrying guns in The legends that surround the life Charles Kennedy was the city limits. When the Allison’s and times of Clay Allison fill volumes accused of killing and rob- refused Faber left but returned a short and have been the subject of numerous bing overnight guests in an time later with two deputies. As they western novels, movies and historical isolated cabin on Palo entered the saloon they opened fire on folklore. Once when asked what he did Fletchado Pass and was the brothers wounding John three times for a living, Allison replied. “I am a being held in the jail at at which time Clay returned fire killing shootist.” Elizabethtown, located Faber. Clay and his brother were arrest- Separating truth from fiction about between present Eagle ed for manslaughter but charges were his life is difficult, but his name lives Nest and Red River, N.M. dismissed since the constable had on. From his early days in Palo Pinto Clay and several other men broke the score for what Clay had done to his begun the fight. John eventually recov- County to his untimely death at the man out of jail and dragged him with a family. Colbert was reputed to have ered from his wounds. young age of 47, his footprints left rope around his neck through the streets already killed seven men and wanted to Clay Allison sold his ranch in New along the Brazos River and in the hard of the town until he was dead. The leg- add Allison’s name to his resume. He Mexico during 1877 to his brother John scrabble hills of Palo Pinto County end of this incident tells of Allison first challenged Allison to a horse race and returned to the birthplace of his remain part of our local collective his- decapitating the man and carrying his which ended in a draw. Later while din- wife and sister-in-law at Sedalia, Mo. tory and colorful folklore. c head in a sack 29 miles to Cimarron ing together at the Clifton House which From there he soon moved to Hayes (Sources: Handbook of Texas Online, and putting it on a stake in front of had been built at a stage coach stop City, Kan., where he became estab- Wikipedia, and numerous other web- Lambert’s Inn. south of Raton, N.M., along the Santa lished as a cattle broker. From 1880 to sites.) His reputation as a gun and knife Fe Trail, Colbert attempted to draw his 1883 Clay ranched with his brothers May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 14

Chasing Our Tales began to write this piece think- was still there. It’s gone now, and I think the building is, as well. (Someone correct me on this, please!) The Furniture ing about the connection to the I have even found a furniture repair store in Great families about whom I wrote last Bowden in Leicestershire, England, from where some I of our Bowden family came! They advertised on Business month. Many of my Bowden and Facebook! In a history book about , I found the story Routh families owned furniture stores, of Richard N. Bowden who was born in Montreal, and I believed this would be a topic Canada, the son of Lorenzo Bowden who was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 1838. In 1865 the that might be of interest to my read- Bowden family came to America for better prospects By Sue Seibert ers. It has turned into much, much and settled in Brookfield, Missouri, where first Lorenzo was a carpenter and cabinet maker for three more. years, then opened a furniture store until 1892 when I grew up in the furniture business in Stephenville. he sold it to his son Richard. Richard married Vina My father had Ficke Furniture Store from about a B. Ives, daughter of Homer D. and Mary Eastman year after the war was over (World War II) until 1958 Ives. The Bowdens were quite successful, both in when we moved to Mineral Wells. We had a farm business and in society, and Richard became mayor between Stephenville and Hico, and on the side of a of the city of Brookfield. The Bowdens had three hill facing Highway 281, he wrote in rocks “Ficke children, Lorenzo Ives, an aviator in World War I, Furniture Store.” Homer Ives, a graduate of Missouri University in Daddy, who was a cowboy and banker, didn’t 1916, and Mary Elizabeth. Richard was a Mason, and mean to be in the furniture business, I don’t think, Vina was a member of the P.E.O. (Philanthropic but my grandfather, Marvin Tilden (Doc) Bowden Educational Organization). had been in the furniture business most of his life, However, before I can talk about local, or family and I guess he sold Daddy on the idea. owned, furniture stores, I want to look at the furni- I have googled Bowden Furniture and have discov- ture business in Texas in general. ered a lot of Bowden stores and Bowden-style furni- When pioneers began to come to Texas, if there ture all around the country. I remember that when we were families, they mostly brought their household first moved to Mineral Wells in 1958 there was a furnishings; and until about 1870 most furniture pur- Bowden Furniture store in Weatherford, and I chased in Texas was made by local cabinetmakers. believe, when Raf and I moved back here in 1980, it Please see page 16 May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 15 POWELL FAMILY OF DEALERSHIPS NOW HIRING Sales Professionals No Experience Necessary 42K-80K per year

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From page 14 Grande valley. In the 1880s Wenzel Friedrich estab- Huntsville, 1856-68; and Frank Creager, Huntsville, Censuses and other records indicate that there lished a furniture factory in San Antonio where he 1860-74. The HYPERLINK “http://www.tshaon- were about 1,000 cabinetmakers making furniture in use animal horns for a rustic style which was popu- line.org/handbook/online/articles/jjt01”Texas State Texas between 1839 and 1880. The first recorded lar in Europe and the Far East. Penitentiary at Huntsville also manufactured furni- Texas cabinetmaker was William P. Lang in Nineteenth Century Texas cabinet makers were ture, using convict labor. Houston. By 1880, however, locally made furniture often chair makers who used a turning lathe and a By 1870 Paris, Texas, in Lamar County, was the was being replaced at a high rate of speed by draw knife to make light ladder-backed chairs with cabinet-making center of Texas. Willet Babcock’s imported, factory-made furnishing. rawhide or woven corn shuck bottoms. Anderson shop there used horse-powered machinery and In the early years there was at least one cabinet Dorris, a Tennessean who immigrated to Lockhart, employed 12 men and three women and made shop in each Texas county, and most towns had sev- Texas, along with his son, John, made 450 hide-bot- $7,990 a year making furniture that included 400 eral. The areas where most of the cabinet makers tomed chairs and sold them for $1.50 each. There bedsteads. In 1875 Babcock set up an 18-horse-pow- worked were the Piney Woods of East Texas, the were at least 40 other men who, between 1850 and ered steam engine, and by 1880 he employed 32 in Blackland Prairie south of the Red River in North 1880, styled themselves chair makers on the Census. Paris, as well as owning a smaller factory in Texas, and the German settlements between the Another chair maker, Henry Journey, established a Clarksville. However, he died in 1881 and both fac- Brazos and the Colorado rivers in Central Texas; cabinet shop in Galveston in 1850. He employed 20 tories closed. and the majority of the cabinet makers in Texas men. Not only did he make chairs, he made case fur- James W. Rodgers, also in Paris, had four employ- were Southerners with a significant minority being niture and operated a blacksmith shop, a livery sta- ees and produced $2,600 worth of furniture in 1870. of German extraction. In 1860, while only 6 percent ble and a lumber yard, and built wooden buildings. He added steam power in 1879 and had a lumber of the state’s population were German Americans, H.H. Ward opened a similar establishment in planing mill as well as a furniture factory. He died 33 percent of the cabinetmakers were German. Austin in 1840, and by the 1860s and 1870s Texas in 1891, but his business continued under the name Early furniture makers were also trained as build- cabinet makers were competing with importers by Rodgers Wade Furniture Company and is still in ers of houses, cotton gins, wagons, and coffins, and employing more workers and by adding animal- and business today as a manufacturing facility. many were, indeed, undertakers. They used hand steam-powered machines to their shops. Other leading Blackland Prairie cabinetmakers, tools and foot-powered lathes and produced such William Sheppard opened a shop in Tyler. He and the approximate dates during which they things as chairs, tables, beds, wardrobes, bureaus, came from Kentucky in the mid-1850s. At first he worked, were James B. Shanahan, Clarksville, 1844- settees, day beds, desks, and cupboards; but little used hand tools, but by 1860 he was in partnership 57; Jasper Longe, Clarksville, 1860-83; W.T. upholstered furniture was made until around 1870 with J. C. Rogers and they had a horse-powered Skinner, Carter (Denton County), 1858-62; H.P. when Will Howe and William Patch of Galveston lathe and three employees who made bedsteads, Davis, Fairfield, 1858-62; William W. Smith, White began making day beds upholstered with horsehair wardrobes and bureaus. They also had a retail Oak (Hopkins County), 1850-60; W.B. Crawford, stuffed with Spanish moss. department, or furniture store. By 1870 they had Mesquite (Navarro County), 1858-62; Peter Wetsel, Wood, of course, was obtained locally from pine moved to Mechanicsville outside Tyler, where they McKinney, 1849-70; Isaac Crouch, McKinney, forests or from the hardwood forests along rivers had a 15-horse-powered steam engine, four lathes, 1866-71; James Foster, Mantua (Collins County), and creeks, the primary varieties being pine, cedar two boring machines, a tennoning machine, and 10 1868-72; John H. Spading, Waxahachie, 1860-78; and walnut. Pine furniture was painted with an oil- employees. They retailed $5,500 a year, but by 1880 Moses Mock, Hillsboro, 1868-72; James R. based paint or grained to imitate the more expensive they had gone out of business. Manning, Sulphur Springs, 1868-72; and William woods, and it was often finished with glossy varnish Other leading East Texas cabinetmakers, and the Anderson, Waco, 1860-82. made of copal. approximate dates during which they worked, were Leading cabinetmakers in the Brazos-Colorado Texas furniture copied Plain Grecian or Abner Stith, Henderson, 1848-52; George W. Blake, region, and the approximate dates during which they Restoration styles, and the German cabinet makers San Augustine, 1850-70; J. George Woldert, San worked, were Heinrich Umland, Bellville, 1850-69; often worked in the Biedermeier style or in the Augustine, 1842-55; Ransom Horn, San Augustine, Johann Umland, Chappell Hill, 1854-81; Helmut German peasant form, Brettstuhl. Mexican cabinet 1850-60; Frederick Wolz, Marshall, 1851-71; W.J. Conrad Kroll, Chappell Hill, 1858-60; Caspar makers copied styles developed along the Rio Foster, Crockett, 1860-70; Hugh Hopkins, Please see page 18 May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 17 May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 18

From page 16 sophisticated furniture, working largely in Witteborg, Chappell Hill, 1854-66, and walnut and pine. They developed a distinct Brenham, 1866-77; Charles Blank, Brenham, regional style, and their furniture is easily rec- 1858-82; Joseph Massanari, Brenham, 1868- ognizable. The leading Fredericksburg cabi- 72; Heinrich Harigel, La Grange, 1851-92; netmakers and the approximate dates during Frederick Buntzel, Cat Spring, 1854-72; which they worked were Frederick Winkel, Gottfried Buescher, Industry, 1859-76; and H. 1845-52; Friedrich Gentmann, 1860-70; Spencer Huby, Hempstead, 1855-62. Johann Adam Kunz, 1845-61; William Leilich, Galveston was a prosperous cabinetmaking 1845-70; Johann Martin Loeffler, 1859-92; center between 1840 and 1850, as well as a John Petri, 1858-62; Christof Shaeper, 1845- major furniture importing center where show- 72; Jacob Schneider, 1853-72; Christian rooms were set up with furniture from New Staats, 1845-85; HYPERLINK “http://www. York and sold to wealthy customers in San tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ Antonio, Gonzales, and Austin. Leading fta13”John Peter Tatsch, 1852-85; and Carl Galveston cabinetmakers, and the approximate Wendler, 1858-62. Other leading Hill Country dates during which they worked, were Daniel cabinetmakers outside of Fredericksburg, in Lochied, 1848-52; Helmut Conrad Kroll, addition to Jahn and Stautzenberger, were 1848-58; Johann Friedrich Ahrens, 1845-70; Eugen Ebensberger, New Braunfels, 1860-70, and Ernest Beck, 1868-72. Because of the and Heinrich Scholl, New Braunfels, 1846-80. availability of imported furniture, cabinetmak- By 1930 there was a nationwide interest in ing in Galveston declined in the mid-1850s. the collection of Texas furniture. The In Austin there was a small cabinet-making Winedale Historical Center, San Antonio industry from its founding in 1839, and by Museum Association in Fayette County, and 1860 there were 10 cabinet shops. By 1870 the Pioneer Museum in Fredericksburg have there were two large shops in Austin, still excellent collections of Texas furniture mak- using hand tools but making $9,000 worth of ing. furniture a year. The railroad arrived in 1871, Now back to my family’s furniture business. and by 1880 there was no one in Austin who My father, grandfather and various great described himself as a cabinet maker. Austin’s grandparents and uncles sold furniture. leading cabinetmakers, and the approximate However, so far as I can tell, none of them dates during which they worked, were Thomas made any of the furniture they sold. However, Bostick, 1854-58; J.W. England, 1858-68; this continues the furniture business in my W.W. Evans, 1866-72; and Joseph Hannig, family. 1865-72. Hannig was the husband of The 1938 City Directory of Brownwood, HYPERLINK “http://www.tshaonline.org/ Texas, shows that M.T. Bowden and his wife, handbook/online/articles/fdi06”Susanna W. Lora, my grandparents, owned a furniture Dickinson, one of the survivors of the store in Brownwood. Shortly after that, how- HYPERLINK “http://www.tshaonline.org/ ever, they retired to Stephenville where my handbook/online/articles/uqa01”Alamo. mother and father lived. Daddy had worked in Aesthetically, the finest of Texas furniture the Brownwood store before moving to was made by the German-born cabinet makers Stephenville to work in the bank. of the Hill Country. They usually employed My grandfather’s building in downtown only one person and did not use power Brownwood is still there, although it certainly machinery. They had been trained, for the doesn’t operate as a furniture store any longer. most part, in the guild system of Europe and He built it just west of the jail house where his held master cabinetmaker’s papers. For exam- father-in-law, RD Routh lived as the jailer ple, HYPERLINK “http://www.tshaonline. until he died at age 90 in 1944. And my org/handbook/online/articles/fjana”Johann father’s building is still in Stephenville, and it Michael Jahn, who had a shop in New is now used as a deli. Braunfels from 1844 until his death in 1883, I’m proud that my family was a part of the served as an apprentice in Prague and received history of Texas furniture makers and furniture his Tischlermeister’s (master tablemaker’s) sellers, and I hope you have enjoyed reading a papers in Switzerland. Franz Stautzenberger, part of this history. c who made furniture at Clear Spring in Guadalupe County, was employed as a cabi- If you have more information about furni- netmaker at the court of the Duke of Nassau ture in Texas, please email me at before coming to Texas in 1845.The Hill HYPERLINK “mailto:sue_seibert@att. Country cabinetmakers often made highly net”[email protected] May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 19

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From page 20 er; Cotton Morris, 10-pointer; Bob Flinn, 7-point- 8-pointer; Bill Wicks, 9-pointer; Bonnie Price, doe; Lloyd Holloway, 8-pointer; Robert Spurlock, er; Don Eichler, 8-pointer (two 8-pointers for Don 7-pointer; Hubert Clark, 8-pointer; Bob Flinn, 5-pointer; Don Bailey, a doe; Don Fangman, one this year); Tommy Visentine, 6-pointer; Cordell 8-pointer (two bucks for Bob this year). buck; Kenneth McMinn, one buck; Harry Cohen, Cooper, 10-pointer; Johnny Bricker, 11-pointer; Three outstanding racks came in Monday. One one buck and doe; Mac Taylor, 6-pointer; Ed J.A. (Arch) Hart, 10-pointer and Robert Probes, of them, a 13-pointer, was dropped by Tim Long Ford, 5-pointer; Doctors (brothers) Tom and John 8-pointer. of Santo, extremely heavy horned; Charles Nicks Key, one buck each. Don Kearby tells of a fight he and Harry of Palo Pinto brought in an extraordinary head There are five known legal methods for taking Shuffler witnessed between two buck deer with 11 points; the main beams measured along white-tailed deer. The most productive method is Saturday afternoon about 1 p.m. on their deer the outside curve were 30 inches; and a 19 ½” hunting from a ground stand or perhaps a tree lease; Don Kearby killed one of the fighting inside spread. stand. bucks, an 8-pointer. Henry McClure’s rack, non-typical, had 13 The other methods are walking, driving, stalk- Harry Shuffler wound up with a 5-pointer and points and a 19” inside spread. Antlers were extra ing and rattling. The rattling of deer antlers is doe. To top it all, Don bagged another 8-pointer heavy and hard, dried velvet was still showing. productive in South Texas; however, it is not later the same afternoon, wishing all the while for By multiplying the tines times the inside spread, known (in 1963) to be successful in North Central a movie camera and plenty of film when all the this head totaled 247 points, the largest so far this Texas. buck fighting was going on. season. Big-antlered deer are now beginning to show Without his having proof, Don Kearby knew So if you get a hankering to show up at Bill here and there since the temperature has dropped. he’d be laughed right out of the Can-Tex office Watson’s Service Station at Metcalf Gap to mea- I’ve seen numerous 10-pointers, some 11-pointers by his boss and co-workers. sure the old mossback’s rack, please don’t go to and a few 12-pointers proudly brought to town. Robert Lane, son of Harry and Dorothy Lane, is too much trouble. Both are gone, the service sta- Several hunters told of one 16-pointer, a moss- 13 years old and lives on their family ranch in a tion and the magnificent head, perhaps a chance- back, being taken in the rough country north of remote area 5 miles from a paved road (on the of-a-lifetime Boone & Crockett scoring. c Santo near winding FM4. Stephens County line). Robert is a schoolboy who This buck could possibly make the Boone & looks forward to weekends when he can spend his Crockett Club, an exclusive club for record heads; hours out-of-doors instead of inside a to make Boone and Crockett, a white-tailed deer school room. must score 160 typical points (in 1963), and must This 13-year-old boy is a dedicated be measured with a steel tape in several places; sportsman, well-read on outdoor lore. tines must be one inch or longer and the rack This year Robert used a 45-pound-pull must be cured. bow and cedar arrow to drop his deer, a The antlers almost have to be massive, having a nice buck, later dropping an very wide inside spread, long main beams and 11-pointer with his rifle. long tines to qualify. (You don’t really need bin- oculars.) The following hunting column Perhaps one old mossback has been taken in appeared in the Dec. 5, 1963, issue of the Palo Pinto County that qualified for the record Mineral Wells Index. It has been para- book. This head was non-typical (180 points to phrased. qualify in 1963) and was a wall-hanger in Bill Watson’s Service Station at Metcalf Gap, about The big white-tailed deer are still being 10 miles west of Palo Pinto town. brought in and they are larger this year. Several I heard that the monster was killed in ‘61 or will go 110-120 pounds field dressed; one buck ‘62; I’m sure that in olden days many prized tro- from the Gordon area field dressed 174 pounds. phies were taken by settlers with their black pow- Palo Pinto County Judge John H. Smith der muzzle loaders time-after-time, but this was slipped into town with a symmetrical 14-point- before Boone & Crockett. er, killed Nov. 27. His father, Palo Pinto Too, these settlers didn’t kill for sport while County doctor Robert Henry Smith, has filled using their trusty flintlocks (muskets like Elmer his tags on the first day of deer season for over Seybold and Crockett Grimes preferred to carry); 30 years, while hunting on the Belding Ranch, heck no, they killed for survival. a guest of rancher Will Belding. Rex Proctor and Bill Houghton brought three Other hunters scoring in this 1963 season: deer to town Sunday. Others were Palo Pinto Tommy Visentine, 8-pointer (two bucks for County Tax Collector John R. Winters 12-pointer; Tommy this year); Mrs. Lem Peters, 9-pointer; Sherman McCoy, 8-pointer; A.R. Moss, 8-pointer; Judge W.O. Gross, 11-pointer; Jay Horton, C.M. Weldon, 11-pointer; John Ritchie, 10-point- 10-pointer; James Barham, 6-pointer; O.G. Dow, May 2012 • NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER • Page 23 Learn'n Tree Health Shoppe

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