Thanks, Tim. That was most interesting!! Bess ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy J. Barron" <tim@timbarron.net> To: <kywolfe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 5:35 PM Subject: [KYWOLFE] Letter to Editor from March 27,1891 issue of the Hazel Green Herald Herald > After encountering the following letter to the editor in the March 27, > 1891 > issue of the Hazel Green Herald, I could not resist transcribing it and > sending it out here to the list. > > Timothy J. Barron > tim@timbarron.net > http://timbarron.net > > > A Letter from Texas: > A Wolfe County Girl Tells Our Readers About Life in the West > Floyd, Hunt County, Texas, March 14, 1891 > > Dear Mr. Editor - I am just a little homesick today and feel like writing > a > eulogy to my dear old mountain home in Wolfe, but it is the unpardonable > sin > for a person who came from the mountains to intimate that they are > homesick > to a Texan. When a Texan asks you where you came from, and you say from > the > mountains of Kentucky, the will twist their necks and say, "Aren't you so > glad to get out of those horrid hills?" I have met very few native > Texans. > Most of the people in Hunt county same from the Middle Atlantic States. I > was very much surprised at the country being so well improved. I had > heard > a great deal about the "Wild West," but it lacks a great deal of being > wild. > This is find farming country, and the muddiest place on earth when it > rains. > People frequently have to stop in the middle of the road and clean their > feet. When they get mud on their feet so that they can't walk, they say > they are "bogged." Cows and horses bog as well as people. The wind blows > all the time here. There have not been any storms since we have been > here, > but we are living in a dread of the famous equinoxal storms that are so > violent in spring. Well Mr. Editor, this is the land of bachelors. I am > aiming my luck in trapping for one who lives just across the way from us, > (but don't you tell papa or he will make me come home). If I am not > successful I will be home in a short time. I am enjoying my visit finely. > Don't let my Kentucky boys all marry while I am gone. > > Sallie E. Graham > > P.S. Please send me a few copies of The Herald. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYWOLFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message