Real Beer, Honorary Dallasite, Part IV
In our story of Adolphus Busch, honorary Dallasite, we are up to the outbreak of the Civil War. Eberhard Anheuser and his new-ish [...]
Real Beer, Honorary Dallasite, Part III
If you are thinking to yourself, poor Adolphus Busch! Just 18 years old and in a new country! But, don’t feel too badly [...]
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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New Tours
We have new tours that we are offering. The tours are one hour around the square in Garland. Garland has quite a number [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
All the Roberts, Part II
My last post included Roberts, TX, a small town 17 miles from Greenville and a mysterious death that involved a man 'falling from [...]