From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Gerald Clough"  wrote in message   
   news:3FF4C0F6.20106@texas.net...   
   > GTT wrote:   
   >   
   > I imagine that Larn was pretty much like other folks whose lives have   
   > been romanticised, a low-life with enough human complexity to be not   
   > *just* a low-life. Sounds a bit like Ben Thompson. Makes them hard to   
   > write about, without going back to original sources and then filtering   
   > for various biases and using some hard-nosed sense to see what they   
   > really were.   
      
   Larn is a bit unusual.  Feelings do run high in Shackelford County on his   
   history and almost all of the original sources have been destroyed or   
   mislaid.  Sorta like the Mason County Wars, even those folks who live there   
   today do not want to discuss the matter for fear of stirring up something   
   they  don't really want to eat!   I believe it because the family he married   
   into was and remains an influential family in the county, even today.   
      
   >   
   > My acquaintance here, Donaly Brice, co-authored a book on Cullen   
   > Montgomery Baker:   
      
   I've met Donaly Brice, the first time in Victoria and more recently, at the   
   charter ceremony for that new Lockhart DRT chapter I mentioned.  He was   
   there and I "wondered" idly to him if he routinely traveled to a lot of   
   these events. He replied in the negative, that rather he lived in that   
   county and was, I believe, a member of the Co. Historical Commission, so he   
   would stay in touch with the local history.  Isn't he about to retire from   
   his Austin job?   I'm afraid he will, and you know how long it takes to   
   build up a really thorough knowledge of the contents and organization of an   
   archive.  Each one is different, and years of knowledge can help a   
   researcher really cut through to the facts, if the archivist is trying to   
   help.   
      
      
    Pricey book.   
   > I can send you my copy on loan, if you get to where you run out of   
   reading.   
      
   I appreciate it.  I notice that Barnes and NOble shows it as not available   
   in NEW books, but in USED only.   I may remind you of your offer someday.   
   :-)   
      
      
   > Was it Ft. Griffin where the Rangers came in and found it more efficient   
   > to round up all the adult males in the county and sort out the decent   
   > ones, rather than go hunting the bad? Or do I remember the place wrongly?   
      
   I do not really know.  That may well be true of Ft. Griffin.  It sounds   
   suspiciously like the story told about Kimble County, Junction is county   
   seat.  That was a bad place to live back then, till the Rangers cleaned it   
   up.  Between Indians, outlaws and rustlers, and just men on the run, those   
   hollows up there were loaded with bad guys to know.   
      
   It sounded, from the review I read, that Shackelford Co. was about the same   
   for a short while!   
      
   Later,   
      
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