Frankly Speaking

Amarillo, Texas, c. 1889 Today, Amarillo, Texas straddles the line that divides Randall and Potter Counties. A brief look at the federal...

Born on Christmas Eve 1856 in Waxahachie, Texas, C. G. Witherspoon would go on during the 1880s and 90s to become an early settler in Deaf S...

When he died in November 1940, "Judge L. Gough" was described by his hometown newspaper, the Hereford Brand,  as "a great lea...

This brief biography is part of a project designed to acquaint myself with the people who founded Hereford College and Industrial School in ...

S. S. (Samuel Shipman) Evants was born in Pope County, Arkansas, on July 31, 1846. At the U.S. Census of 1900, Evants was nearly 54 years ol...

As early as 1891, 22 citizens of Deaf Smith County, Texas, petitioned for a referendum that might create a new tax. Revenues would support a...

This post relates to my previous entries about Panhandle Christian College (1902-1911) in Hereford, Texas. It helps to explain why this coll...

Handbook of Texas Online , Webb L. Moore, "GREER COUNTY," accessed October 25, 2019, https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/art...

On Friday, October 18, I submitted final grades for the first 8-week Fall semester at Amarillo College and headed east to Oklahoma. My moth...

The train traveling west from Greenville, North Carolina, left the station three hours late. But Meta Chestnutt didn't mind. The only th...

During the second half of 1890, only a year after Meta Chestnutt first arrived in Silver City, R. W. Officer reported on the state of Stone-...

Part of R. W. Officer's report from Indian Territory in the fall of 1890 includes the following, written at Minco, I.T.: Miss Meta Che...