Interesting. You left out the part about Cotulla being the meanest town in South Texas during the "Old West" days. Story is that there were more outlaws, owl hoots, and general all-around bad boyz that made Cotulla their home base because it was between San Antonio and Laredo and there were a lot of easy pickin's travelling through the area. I have often wondered if the book "Lonesome Dove" may have been patterned after Cotulla? By the way the name that caught my eye was "Krietz". Roy Krietz used to be my boss, but his family was from Wharton County.