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We are set on creating the most beautiful space of all – one we call our very own. kubota.com © Kubota Tractor Corporation, 2015 CURRENTS Letters, emails and posts from our readers Doc Crumley’s Legacy Window to the Landscape Another interesting article by Gene E. Dan Klepper has missed one of life’s little experi- Fowler [“The Old Indian Doctor,” ences by not traveling [in Big Bend National Park] March 2015]. The madstone that through the dry creek bed that once led to the Doc Crumley carried in his saddle- bag might have been the same one Window, a total pleasure [“Lay of the Landscape,” author and San Saba area resident February 2015]. It took us through places where the Sarah Harkey Hall used after a rabid water was running, and we stepped into holes knee skunk attacked her while she was deep, which filled our brand-new hiking boots. In asleep on her front porch on a places, we guessed where the trail led while we scorching summer day. She said it climbed up and down rocks. Then suddenly, we took her husband until the next day arrived, and there before us was the breathtaking to return with the stone, which she beauty of the desert floor below. also said saved her life. Hall’s book is “Surviving on the JOANNE CHESHIER | FREDERICKSBURG | CENTRAL TEXAS EC Texas Frontier: The Journal of a Frontier Orphan Girl in San Saba County, 1852–1907.” VARDY VINCENT | KINGSBURY Hays County near Dripping Springs. It is more than 400 years into the canyon. We found a place BLUEBONNET EC She first married a member of the since the mistake, and it is time to way back where there was a narrow Knox family and then may have had move on and correct the historical path, similar to a cave, with water Gene Fowler replies: Dr. Crumley’s another marriage before marrying mistake. It is up to academia and running through it. Over the years, madstone could very well have John Alexander. the media to work toward correct- we visited Palo Duro Canyon many been the one applied to Sarah They lived and died at Evant ing this mistake and not cause times just to explore and wade the Harkey Hall. I have another article and are buried at Knox cemetery, confusion. clear, cool water. that documents his stone being where Doc Crumley is buried. We NED LAKHANIGAM | DENTON COUNTY Once we saw a centipede that used in Hamilton County. believe he is an uncle. If any of the COSERV ELECTRIC was about 12 inches long, the family is interested or has more largest I have ever seen. My late husband’s grandmother information about her, we would Feed Sack Fondness CLEO ADAMS | HAMILTON told the story of how, as a small love to communicate with them. I wore many pretty feed sack HAMILTON COUNTY EC child, she saw Doc Crumley in the NELL CLOVER | CHAPPEL HILL dresses [“Feeding Their Fashion 1890s riding around the Buttercup CHEROKEE COUNTY EC Sense,” February 2015] when I was community in a donkey-pulled cart, a child, even after I started school. and he scared her to tears. I am saddened by the fact that I loved them. GET MORE TCP AT KAREN R. THOMPSON | LEANDER everyone in America seems to NANCY COAKLEY | VIA FACEBOOK TexasCoopPower.com PEDERNALES EC want to perpetrate the mistake of Sign up for our E-Newsletter for Christopher Columbus, who called Caprock Memories monthly updates, prize drawings the Native Americans or First I really enjoyed the article by E. and more! Nations Peoples as “Indians” Dan Klepper on Caprock Canyon because he was actually looking and Turkey [“Turkey Trottin’,” for a route to India. January 2015]. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Being an Indian from India, My family lived about three- ONLINE: TexasCoopPower.com/share I feel sad that the ethnic identity quarters of a mile from the EMAIL: [email protected] of more than a billion is being entrance to the canyon for several MAIL: Editor, Texas Co-op Power, hijacked by a few hundred thou- years in the 1940s. My brother 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, sand people living in America, and and I would ask our mom if we Austin, TX 78701 We believe our great-great-grand- the rest of the country, including could go to the canyon. The answer Please include your town and electric co-op. Letters may be edited for clarity and length. mother was a Crumley. Her daugh- educated people, are not doing was always the same: “No, you ter’s name was Cassie Parthinea anything to stop the spreading will get lost.” Echols. Cassie’s family lived in of this lie. Several years later, we did go Texas Co-op Power Magazine TEXAS CO-OP POWER VOLUME 71, NUMBER 11 (USPS 540-560).