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 > >