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JACKSBORO STUFF SOF SOF SOF SOF
SOF COMING
They don't wear six-guns in Jacksboro anymore, unless its for a celebration, like today's Fort Richardson Frontier Fair.
SOF UNDER NA! ATION
HERE
BAND
The Jacksboro High school band tootles its way down county seat the main street of the of Jack, leading the march to historic Fort Richardson, and the first day of festivities. This is the first year of the Frontier Fair, sponsored by the Jack County Historical Society, and a seven-inch rai almost dampened the day's activities. But, the rain lifted and the clouds broke up a little moments Defore the parade started. The Jack County Sheriff's Posse shows up dressed in
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The cavalrymen, station.
ed at Fort Richardson during the Civil War period, settlers protected the e"from indian raids.
WAGONS AND STAGE COACH
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Cnestoga luthenic stage coaches and agons, the famed "prairie schooners" of pioneer days join in the wagonsyjourneyed parade of history. Some of these 1mum-
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about the first annual Fort Richardson Frontier Day sponsored by the Jack County Historical Society in Jacksboro, Texas.
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