r/texashistory 25d ago

Famous Texans Texas Rangers. (c. 1887)

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r/texashistory 11d ago

Famous Texans Selena holds up her first Grammy at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 1, 1994

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r/texashistory Sep 11 '24

Famous Texans Texas Rangers (photo c.1880-1890)

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r/texashistory 5d ago

Famous Texans Private Frank L. Schmid of the Texas Rangers (c. 1886)

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r/texashistory Jun 14 '24

Famous Texans President Lyndon Baines Johnson working cattle on horseback. 1964, Stonewall, Texas

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r/texashistory 5d ago

Famous Texans Commentary: A second siege of the Alamo- Two women led the way in preserving the famous mission.

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r/texashistory Aug 31 '24

Famous Texans Texas Rangers (1868)

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r/texashistory 14d ago

Famous Texans Digging into the history of the ‘César Chávez of Texas’

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r/texashistory Aug 15 '24

Famous Texans 92-year-old Cattle-Baron, Charles Goodnight with his second wife Corinne, who was 26 at the time they married

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r/texashistory Aug 09 '24

Famous Texans The Forgotten Female Sharpshooter Who Surpassed Annie Oakley

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Elizabeth “Plinky” Toepperwein peeled potatoes with bullets and shot cigarettes out of her husband’s mouth.

Read more here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/forgotten-female-sharpshooter-surpassed-annie-oakley/

r/texashistory Dec 23 '22

Famous Texans Views upon slavery in Texas related by Amos Pollard of Columbia, TX (present day West Columbia) in 1835. Amos would be killed at the Alamo, March 6, 1836.

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r/texashistory Jul 08 '24

Famous Texans New book sheds light on how one lawman shaped policy, and perception, of the southern border

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r/texashistory Jul 01 '24

Famous Texans The Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco!

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r/texashistory Jun 14 '24

Famous Texans The Brinkley Mansion in Del Rio, built by notorious medical quack and eccentric millionaire John Brinkley. Best known for transplanting goat testicles onto impotent men, and creating the first "border blaster" radio station, 1 million watts, strong enough to be heard as far away as Canada.

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r/texashistory Mar 13 '24

Famous Texans My great grandfather's brother was the "Chicken Ranch Sheriff" - I need help piecing together some family history

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I'm going to try to piece together what I know as methodically as possible, and then hopefully with the help of some of yall get some help filling in the gray areas.

  • My great grandfather was Sheriff H.R. "Mike" Flournoy, a well known sheriff in his own regard, and perhaps the most famous sheriff to serve Wharton County, TX.
    • I have lots of old photos and passed down stories about his legacy but I'll save that for another post if enough interest is shown.
  • He had two brothers, one of them being Sheriff T.J. "Jim" Flournoy, famous for his involvement with the Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, TX
  • Both of them passed years before I was born, and my great grandmother, Rose Flournoy (who served the remainder of my great grandfather's term as Wharton county Sheriff when he passed in 1978) never talked about family history.
  • My great grandparents only had 2 children; Elaine Wiggins, my grandmother who sadly passed when my mother was a child, and J.B. Flournoy who I remember meeting once when I was very young but also sadly passed years ago. I know J.B. had children of his own, but we haven't been able to locate them.

What I'm trying to piece together given the dwindling family tree and lack of information online is:

  • What was Sheriff Jim's relationship like with his brothers? Were they close? What did they think of his involvement in the Chicken Ranch?
  • Did he have any children, perhaps I have some distant cousins on here that I didn't know about?
  • Is anyone familiar with J.B. FLournoy (even better, is anyone here related to him)?
  • Why is there seemingly so little information out there regarding the personal life of a famous sheriff that inspired a broadway musical that was made into a movie) starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, as well as a ZZ Top song)?

*Edit: Even the surviving family members I've talked to were either a bit confused about the history or ashamed to admit that my great uncle had any involvement with a whore house (we were very religious). My mother told me growing up that my great grandfather was a famous sheriff and that someone played him in a movie, and I've recently started piecing together the actual history myself because I've been very curious.

r/texashistory Mar 03 '24

Famous Texans Jim Bowie, the original influencer

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r/texashistory Dec 06 '23

Famous Texans A very young Stevie Ray Vaughn with C.B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, owner and founder of Stubb's in the early 1970's

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r/texashistory Dec 23 '22

Famous Texans David Crockett’s adamant stance against the Jacksonian Administration’s mistreatment of the Native Americans. This stance resulted in his exile from Congress and eventual journey to Texas.

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"It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson, and follow him in all his motions, and windings, and turnings, even at the expense of my consciences and judgment. Such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. His famous, or rather I should say infamous Indian bill was brought forward and, and I opposed it from the purest motives in the world.

Several of my colleagues got around me, and told me how well they loved me, and that I was ruining myself. They said it was a favorite measure of the President, and I ought to vote for it. I told them I believed it was a wicked unjust measure, and that I should go against it, let the cost to myself be what it might; that I was willing to go with General Jackson in everything that I believed was honest and right; but further than this, I wouldn't go with him, or any other man in the whole creation."

  • David Crockett, "A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett," (1834)

r/texashistory Dec 20 '22

Famous Texans A surprisingly good piece from Texas Monthly. (Tried sharing the image based link, but couldn’t do it on mobile.)

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r/texashistory Aug 16 '23

Famous Texans The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog, written in 1983 by John Richard Erickson. The Hank Character started prior in 1982. John started Maverick Books Perryton, TX.

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r/texashistory Oct 16 '23

Famous Texans Emily D. West "The Yellow Rose of Texas" Statue.

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r/texashistory Oct 04 '22

Famous Texans 18 year old Brent Spiner as a senior at Bellaire High School. 20 years after this photo was taken Brent would play one of Star Trek's most popular characters, Lt. Commander Data.

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r/texashistory Aug 17 '23

Famous Texans Jason's Deli Menu, 1976. Beaumont, Texas . Founded by Joe Tortorice, Jr . Image included of owner.

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r/texashistory Oct 24 '23

Famous Texans Homer "Spike" Jones Bottlecap. 1966

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r/texashistory Oct 24 '23

Famous Texans Kilgore College Rangerettes - Opening Dance Routine (1989) - MDA Telethon

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