Reflections from the Flo Crossroads
Subtitle: True Stories From a Native Son of a Country Crossroads
By: Mark Taylor.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wheelock Creek Pub.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Littleton, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Leon County (Tex.) -- History -- Anecdotes.; Leon County (Tex.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
First sentence: Back in the nineteen-thirties, life in the country crossroads community of Flo, Texas was not so easy as it is now.
Description: There are thousands of country crossroads in America.  Each has a name and a history known to the inhabitants of the local area, although unheard of elsewhere.  This book is about one of these crossroads-the joys and sorrows, trials and tribulations, successes and failures of the people of have inhabited the area since the Civil War.  It contains true stories of humor, joy, adventure, tragedy, sorrow and human interest that depict the resourcefulness and indomitable spirit of country people in America when faced with what appears to be insurmountable obstacles.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: i; title: Maps
pagenum: v; title: Photographs
pagenum: 287; label: I
title: Potpourri
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Heaven Is Going To The Flo Store
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: The Broken Thermometer
pagenum: 5; label: 3
title: The Mocking Laugh
pagenum: 6; label: 4
title: The Tattletale
pagenum: 8; label: 5
title: The Young Gamblers
pagenum: 10; label: 6
title: The Las Vegas Smile
pagenum: 12; label: 7
title: Some Died Young
pagenum: 14; label: 8
title: The Carpenter
pagenum: 16; label: 9
title: Ed's First Airplane
pagenum: 17; label: 10
title: The Grapevine Booby Trap
pagenum: 19; label: 11
title: Never Trust a Mustang
pagenum: 22; label: II
title: The Early Years (1860-1920)
pagenum: 25; label: 12
title: The Flo, Texas Arena Slaves
pagenum: 27; label: 13
title: The Leon County Gunfighters
pagenum: 37; label: 14
title: The Country Doctor
pagenum: 55; label: 15
title: Beating the Snake
pagenum: 61; label: 16
title: Brother Chase
pagenum: 64; label: 17
title: Fishing the Cutoff
pagenum: 67; label: 18
title: Blue Baby
pagenum: 71; label: 19
title: The Crocuses
pagenum: 74; label: 20
title: The Watermelon Patch
pagenum: 79; label: 21
title: The Taylor Girls
pagenum: 82; label: III
title: The Middle Years (1921-1940)
pagenum: 85; label: 22
title: The Bill Farrell Tragedy
pagenum: 87; label: 23
title: The Murder of Luke Price
pagenum: 93; label: 24
title: Aunt Matt and Uncle Wiley
pagenum: 100; label: 25
title: The Great Sandflat Confrontation
pagenum: 102; label: 26
title: The Spring Frog
pagenum: 107; label: 27
title: Literary Man
pagenum: 109; label: 28
title: The Bath
pagenum: 115; label: 29
title: The Pseudo-Handicap
pagenum: 117; label: 30
title: The Balking House
pagenum: 151; label: 31
title: Flo's First School Bus Driver
pagenum: 125; label: 32
title: Eli and Ol' Red
pagenum: 131; label: 33
title: The Knucks
pagenum: 134; label: 34
title: The Tiger
pagenum: 137; label: 35
title: Santa Claus in Overalls
pagenum: 139; label: 36
title: The Fishing Secret
pagenum: 146; label: 37
title: The Fox Hunter
pagenum: 153; label: 38
title: The Bee Tree Hunting Contest
pagenum: 159; label: 39
title: The Red Wagon
pagenum: 164; label: 40
title: The Spike Buck
pagenum: 166; label: 41
title: The Colorado CCC Camp
pagenum: 173; label: 42
title: The Woodsman
pagenum: 175; label: 43
title: The Black Sheep
pagenum: 179; label: IV
title: The Later Years (1941-1993)
pagenum: 183; label: 44
title: The Crosscut Saw
pagenum: 185; label: 45
title: Leroy Wilson's Brand
pagenum: 188; label: 46
title: The Training of Ol' Jack
pagenum: 191; label: 47
title: Joe Bell's Old Sow
pagenum: 198; label: 48
title: Hog Stealer
pagenum: 202; label: 49
title: Ol' Blue
pagenum: 206; label: 50
title: Tom Bill Featherston, Lived Hard, Died Young
pagenum: 217; label: 51
title: A DamnYankee Comes to Leon County
pagenum: 228; label: 52
title: Daylight Saving Time
pagenum: 239; label: 53
title: The Drumstick
pagenum: 242; label: 54
title: No Longer A Quail Hunter
pagenum: 245; label: 55
title: Changing Times
pagenum: 249; label: 56
title: The Pet Donkey
pagenum: 252; label: 57
title: The Telephone Man
pagenum: 261; label: 58
title: Help from  A Black Family
pagenum: 263; label: 59
title: The Hopewell Negro Church
pagenum: 266; label: 60
title: Leon County, No Medical Utopia
pagenum: 271; label: 61
title: The Wood Thievs
pagenum: 277