Train Wrecks! Part Ocho
Our last 'chapter' saw the two trains slamming in to each other, telescoping and killing at least three people. (Some reports declare 4 [...]
Train Wrecks, Part 7
When last we left our staged train wreck, the engines plus six cars were hurtling towards each other in Crush, TX, a small [...]
Train Wrecks! Part Sechs
Roughly 40,000 people showed up to see the MKT railroad's scheduled train wreck in the impromptu 'town' of Crush, Texas. The two engines [...]
Train Wrecks! Part Cinco
With our date and location chosen, our rail lines built and our small town erected, just how many people showed up to see [...]
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 [...]
Dallas’ Fire of 1860
The last few posts have been about Alex and Sarah Horton Cockrell. After Alex's death, Sarah built the St. Nicholas hotel - she [...]
More Cockrell Family
My previous post was about Sarah Horton Cockrell, capitalist. What type of man attracts a powerful woman’s eye? It is said that Sarah’s [...]
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), [...]
Famous Folks of Pioneer Park, Part III
This is the headstone of Rufus C Patton. He is not famous, to my knowledge. He does, however, have a lovely headstone in [...]