charles I will check with todd about that and get back to you about your books. ty for the new info on flat top ranch,,,it was next to our ranch and I am new to that info. Eva ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles A. Wyly" <wyly1@juno.com> To: <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [ERATH] flat top ranch > Bryan was a student in Walnut Springs when I was Principal. His mom > taught the 7 and 8 th grade. His dad had a farm across the Steele Creek > from Charles Pettit's Flat Top Ranch,near the East Bosque. Mr. Pettit's > son in law Major Long, owned the Rough Creek Ranch. Bryan has written a > few books and articles while teaching in Glen Rose. > > There is a Sowell Ranch across the Brazos and downstream from Eulogy- > Brazos Point, a few miles down the Goatneck road in Johnson County near > the Kimball Bend Rock store remains on the old Chisholm Trail Crossing. > > (Actually the McCoy Trail- The Chisholm Trail actually starts at a Red > River Port, and goes through Yukon, Okla, To Abilene , Kansas, and Texas > Trail and McCoy Trails were the Texas extension- but north of Red River > it was blazed by Jesse Chisholm, Sam Houston's Friend to run his Ox Cart > Freight united from the river port to where he builf his store south of > Abilene, Kansas and he supplied some Government Reservations with > merchandise, BUT HE NEVER DROVE CATTLE- That was John Chisholm of Paris, > Texas and Concho vamlley- only he drove his East to West and he and John > Wylie saw Goodnight- Loving drovers carry their cattle down to the Pecos > then up to Colorado. ). > > Texas Chain Gang Prisoners built a 2 story Sowell Ranch HQ many years > ago, It is connected to cellars built on and under a Rock ridge. I do not > know all the Sowell Connections. > > Have you yet driven past the Flat Top Ranch creek to the Flat Top > Mountain and across cattle guards into the Antelope pasture? Antelope can > jump straight out or straight up, but not across a cattle guard or fence. > I went out on one of the Walnut Springs Fire Trucks to fight an out of > control grass and Cedar fire near Flat Top Mountain. Trucks also came > from Morgan, Glen Rose, Cleburne,Iredell and Stephenville and others. . > I helped some on the Stephenville truck- they were short handed for > anyone to rest. They would try to contact Stephenville by Fire Dept > Radio- but were getting a skip to Comanche Fire Dept, who was relaying > the messages back to Stephenville. Trucks were ignoring County line and > just trying to stop the fire. > > The Antelope and Deer will line up on foot of Flat Top and look over the > fence and hill at those silly Hunter men down in the Creek bottom in a > Tree Stand. They ignored us driving by unless we stopped and maid much > noise. > > Eva, I still do not have my copy of the H. Grady Perry Book back - > thought I had 2 coming. > > Charles Wyly > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:50:01 -0800 Tim Seawolf Self <tim@selfroots.com> > writes: > > From: emrog@htcomp.net (emrog) > > Date: 03/30/2005, 4:23:53 PM > > Subject: flat top ranch > > > > Charles: > > > > have you read a book called A DREAM COME TRUE by bryan sowell and > > louis a. > > beechert, jr. its the story of flat top ranch. > > > > eva > > > > > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >