EARLY SETTLERS ERATH COUNTY-STEPHENVILLE TEXAS

EARLY SETTLERS CAME TO ERATH COUNTY FROM MANY DIFFERENT PLACES. SOME CAME IN VEHICLES PULLED BY ANIMALS. A FEW WALKED. IN MORE RECENT TIMES SETTLERS CAME BY GASOLINE POWERED VEHICLES. IN MORE RECENT TIMES NEW ARRIVALS CAME TO THE AREA BY TRAINS AND THEN AIR PLANES.

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About the Author Luther Butler was born of southern parents in Alamosa, Colorado in 1929. He holds degrees from Eastern New Mexico University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Tarleton State, University, and he graduated from Durango High School in 1948. He served in the US Navy and has ranched, worked in a mental hospital, in inner city slums, and was with the Texas Department of Agriculture for 23 years. He is married to Jo Butler and has one son. Other novels by the author can be found at Barnes & Noble.com - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=luther+butler&z=y&cds2Pid=9481 To view a discussion of my novels, search "Luther Butler" in Google.

Friday, July 01, 2005

The Austin Chronicle: Columns: Daytrips

The Austin Chronicle: Columns: Daytrips: "Of course, Texans have their fun-loving side, too. On the Henderson County Courthouse lawn in Athens is a statue commemorating the local fiddlers' contest held on the last Friday of May since 1921. Stephenville has a black-and-white cow proclaiming Erath County the dairy capital of Texas. Famous for its dinosaur tracks, there are imprints of footprints incorporated in a gazebo outside of the Somerville County Courthouse in Glen Rose. The last white buffalo in Texas was killed north of Snyder, and they memorialized the event with a statue at the Scurry County Courthouse. In Floresville they have a giant peanut and in Seguin they have a giant pecan. No monument is stranger than the courthouse cornerstone in Eastland that once held Old Rip, the horned toad whose mummified body can be seen through the courthouse window.
645th in a series. Day Trips, Vol. 2, a "

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