Real Beer, Honorary Dallasite
Honorary Dallasite for a few days, Adolphus Busch – the 21st of 22 children. But don’t worry, his dad was a businessman with his fingers [...]
John Neely Bryan – Wrapping it up
John Neely Bryan, as you remember from our last installment, took off after shooting a man. The man survived, but Bryan Stayed gone [...]
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I had SO much fun on the tours Saturday. A great big thank you to everyone who showed up and listened to the [...]
Train Wrecks! Part Deux
THE CRASH AT CRUSH Extreme marketing, Texas-style How to boost ticket sales in the cutthroat world of 1890s Texas train transportation? With an [...]
Train Wrecks!
Train wrecks is both literal and metaphorical. Metaphorical train wreck: I slid off the rails with buying and rehabbing a new house, letting [...]
Dallas’ Fire of 1860, Part III
Short recap - there was a fire in July of 1860 that wiped out very nearly all of Dallas' buildings. It seemed suspicious [...]
Dallas’ Fire of 1860, part II
Remember our a&& kicker, Sarah Horton Cockrell? And her St. Nicholas hotel that only stood for a year before it burnt to the [...]
Badass Female Dallasite
Ringing in her 199th birthday this month, chief female badass of Dallasites: Sarah Horton Cockrell. In a time of rampant diseases without cure, [...]
All the Roberts, Part III
Our story of Shack Roberts, freed slave/politician/minister/blacksmith/founder of Wiley College continues. Running as a Republican (which was the liberal party at the time), [...]