Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-04
There are Tweu,y-Three Name
less Graves OF Men Who
DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON.
Pen Pictures OF a FroHlier Towa In the Pan.
handle selOru The Railfcad Came
Once Headquarters Tor The
Panhandle.

AAAsNsAN NAANAA ~ NHtA0 ANNMAAANt ~ AAAtl
Mexican ranchero, Ia 1875, previous to
which time Il was sort Of general
Indian camping ground.
Tho word Tascosa means low, boggy
sandy, and is descriptive OF the place
In The days OF 10scosas greatest pros
pcriiy when Il was trading hoadquar.
tors for a dozen big ranches and tho
whole northwestern Panhandle, Il
probably had Us many as 800 inhab-
ilauts, with u floating population us
great. But about four years ago the
Fort Worth and Denver road came
through itand killed II and il Is now u
forlurn, struggling bunch OF adoho
houses, squaltcd duly Ia tho sand be-
side the sluggish Canadian river, and
numbering about soyonty-nyo souls
The town was first a Mexican plaza,
the abode Of some worry wealthy Mex
lean sheep mon, then Texas cow
toxin, trading headquarters for tho
whole western Panhandle for from $50
TO 200 miles around.
ID was irightiully hard "toughn
plao1. In the days before wire fonces'
when The range WIS common, aud gen
esd round-ups held twice year, there
would frequently DO 20 TO 100 cowboys
In town at clcc, and IL was a common
thing for thom 10 get on spree and
'shoot mp tho town, - rido shooting and
bowling through the saloons, otc
Fierce aIUys, brwls, shoodnge,
were Of froQ, ant occurrence so free
quent that the little children when they
heard the report Of a pistol would run
screaming for tho nearest hcuso.
Out south Of town there lies bare
and dosolate hill OF Whitley clay and
gravel. with no greOn thing upon tia
moro iorhiddmgly dirary spot could
not be imagined thuu it's BALD, hlanched
face uncovered to the pitiless suns aud
burning winds Of summon and tho I'M
/ checked fury Of wtntor storms. THIS IL
Boot Hill Here are.
TwESTY-TIREE NAMELEss GRAVES
in the clay and gravel, whore lie TWEEN
| ty-three mon who died with thoir boots
on; two or threo were killed by aome
accident; all the others were shot or
| knitted In street fights or saloon brawls;
aud these are not all; four or five 9th
ers are buried in different places.
The nearest railroad point was
| Springer, New Mexico, but all supplies
coming, naturally from the east
wera hauled from Dodge City,
Kas., 2i0 miles east Sometimes in
hard winters the wagons would be two
| and ,blrno months ON tlfa rOld-no mail
prnvisions Inv. nlmo.t nothing 10 ent
| bnt br,nd and heof-O lbovy tho oroat
string Of h,igbt WAGONS womb bo
watched for and welcomed!
Hero were nll tho wind and uictlr.
cane clements of IA fronsIcr tninino
on cattle town. Won could no, mint mo
Iife In TOO sh.nng coIore-tbs lIobt,
white Tie shndo,ys black and lam
them up npaiust ouch other until the
contrast dnzzles Won. Tho marrow.
minded nrovipcief nietv and biootpd
,ristjc ortbodoxy. and tbe doyilish. law.
ie-s bold and nirtpesoi,o ior losotfsd
d,based nnd dcndlv comnonplacc
,yiclfedneas n,d immoyalify Uoro lived
md moved nto
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mann '"u'iiii 'Nnni."Di
suffered, wept ana dlodi an lhe mate
rlals OIL tho frontier hkelch WrliHr-
the changed ana concealed identltle5-
names leit Dc,htind for pride's sake or
concealed, no inc bloody garment
OF the murderer the irreEuiaflty OF
the marriage question romantic, tragic
or nlHRfaceiul stories OF a. iorlher innf
rage back IN INC oid world or IN the
states. attaching mere or les vaguely
| ~ '"N'i" 49," van 49, VIZ 1921 iNf
hgnresi soeacs' Incidents Situations
tho strange Inversion OF 80 many ordi
nary cohditions aud c'rtomN We nash
ing out OF sweet or noble triit M some
wrecked and ruined character and per.
sostAiisyi the brave ana hughing grl'
and g0od heart, the silent uneomplaln,
ing unhineling courage 81 s9ltly bred
women suddenly thrust INTO hardship.
You cl'n scarcely conceive l4olatlon an1
loneliness unspsakapie, ana distress ana
danger 10 thuse they loved
Here, too. with almost no opposing
pnblic sentiment 10 deprec'ltp and
check II, none Of the means and gracci
OF an ol6er civilization 70 sincoth over
disguise and conceal IL, or mat Older
ciylllAtion's Inu-ein'snis ann Interest,"
70 occupy and divert inc dangerous
leisure hours Of the male human am
mai especially the young and uncon
noctsd Oh mat species mere hpnrla hep
luxuriantly the gTiui curse OF drink
ing the blight that ieit you only apou'
one out Of seventy OF your men iricndi
that you didn't have 20 steal a hurried
accommodating glance az brst- 70 500
whether be was sober or ''pn tonri
glore you DioSsonieu oN' ii'o s''e'
About one-iourtb Of a mile east OF tn.