Texas Trails: On Blind Faith
Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:44
By CLAY COPPEDGE, Country World Staff Writer
March 11, 2010 - They called the man who founded Marble Falls "Stovepipe" because of a sneaky trick he pulled off as a Confederate commander in the Civil War. The town he founded was called Blind Man's Town because he was blind when he laid out the streets of the town by memory.
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Texas Trails: Coffee's Eden
Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:36
By CLAY COPPEDGE, Country World Staff Writer
March 4, 2010 - Accounts of the early days of Texas often include a mention of the name Holland Coffee. Coffee, along with his wife Sophia, owned and operated the Glen Eden Plantation in Grayson County, from the late 1830s, to the last years of the 19th Century.
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Texas Trails: Morman Movement
Monday, 08 March 2010 14:51
By CLAY COPPEDGE, Country World Staff Writer
Feb. 25, 2010 - If Lyman Wight could have had his way, Texas and not Utah might have become home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Mormon Church Wight brought about 150 fellow Mormons across the Red River into Texas in November of 1845. They spent the winter in Grayson County and in the spring of 1846 migrated south to a spot near present-day Webberville.
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Texas Trails: The Original Outlaw
Thursday, 25 February 2010 21:41
By CLAY COPPEDGE, Country World Staff Writer
Feb. 18, 2010 - Maybe the reason Johnny Ringo's name has stayed in the history books and popular culture for so long is simply because of the name itself -- Johnny Ringo. Though newspaper accounts of the day often referred to him as Johnny Ringgold for some reason, his real name was Johnny Ringo. The name has a certain, well, ring to it.
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Texas Trails: Fiddling Around
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 15:44
By CLAY COPPEDGE, Country World Staff Writer
Feb. 11, 2010 - While others might think of Texas music as the domain of guitar players, the fiddle is the instrument that has most shaped what we identify as traditional Texas music. The fiddle came to Texas with cowboys and early settlers, because it was smaller than a guitar and easier to carry on horseback. The same goes for the harmonica and banjo.
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