Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1993 Page: 4 of 12
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food, music, and talking.
THE LAST OF THE SHAGGIES
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by Colquitt Warren
Dell City Community Building
Where:
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oiliech GICIEE WGIEMHES maler PIUnpIng
AGENDA:
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:30 pm
Water Pumping Operations - Hillard Watson
4:00 pm
Coffee and Drinks
ENGINES TO SUPPL Y YOUR NEEDS
4:15 pm
Dave Clark, West Texas Caterpillar, Midland, Texas
4:45 pm
5:15 pm
Adjourn Meeting
5:30 pm
Mark Wiggins, Sierra Engines, Austin, Texas
Bill Boyd
Southern Union Gas Company
Invites You to an Energy Seminar
Barbecue with all the trimmings!
Santa Claus
Bill Thompson - Introductions & Welcome!
It has been a good week with reports of all having a happy Thanks-
giving. The early morning temperatures have been down in the
teens, but the days have warmed up and been nice.
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The Andy Lewis family enjoyed Thanksgiving Day together in
Sierra Blanca at Gary, Kay and Vayle Scarbrough's home. Kearney,
Janet, Dorothy, Scott, and Travis came from Crow Flat. Joining
the Lewis family were Dean, Tyler, and Trevor Harris from Malaga,
NM and Elizabeth and Clayton Stephens from Artesia, NM. They
all had a great day and ate entirely too much!
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Clifton and Millie Dean enjoyed their family for Thanksgiving on
Crow Flat. Dermis, Becky, and Kyle Walker came from Ft. Han-
cock and Frances, Quee, Dani, and Carrie Shrum came from El
Paso. Crocket Dean came down from Cloudcroft and Sara and Ed
Gage came from Pinon, NM. Also visiting on Crow Flat was Clif-
ton's sister Minnie and her husband Eugene Kemp from Abernathy,
Texas. The Deans report a very happy Thanksgiving with a lot of
Jim Coody's father, Charles,
and Martha Jean's father, Wil-
son Bennett, were at the ranch
for the Thanksgiving weekend.
Kathy and Sue Jones enjoyed
seeing their grandfathers: and
great- grandfathers.
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Jane Schafer spent Thanks-
giving in Alamogordo with her
daughter Rhonda. They enjoyed
a big T-bone steak! Jonna Lou
Schafer and Dale Leith went to
El Paso to spend Thanksgiving
Day with Dale's mother, Pat
Leith.
West Texas Region - Alan Johnson, Vice President:
Thank you, Dell City, for your business
Gas Supply & Cost
You do make a difference to Southern Union Gas
Bob and Elizabeth Jones hosted Thanksgiving dinner at their home.
Bob's mother, Laura Jones, has been visiting for the last week.
Joining them was Bobby, Pat, Michelle and also visiting was L. N.
Diane, Chase and Tana Saul and Sammy Watkins.
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Pat Jones went to El Paso Saturday to see her dad, Charles Mitchell,
in Sierra Medical Hospital. Pat spent the night with her family and
had a nice visit.
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Beth Bullard reports a very nice Thanksgiving with her sons and
their families. Rex, Carla,, Robert, Lorie, and Megan were here
from Albuquerque and Kim, Ana, and Jared were here from Reece
AFB in Lubbock. They enjoyed good food and lots of fun games..
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Kearney Lewis traveled to
Silver City, NM Saturday to
see his son, Jeremy, Shannon,
and Cory. He enjoyed spend-
ing the day and playing with
his grandson, Cory.
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is in Las Vegas, Nevada with
her mother, Bernice Jonas, and
her sisters, Joann Fine and Vir-
ginia Canfield, and her brother,
Ben Jonas. Minnie is expected
home early this week.
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Eva Wright of Big Lake, Texas,
died Friday, November 26. Our
sympathy to Gerald and Mary
Lewis. Eva was Mary Lewis'
sister.
When Cabeza de Vaca wrote about his long journey (2, 000 miles
or more) across Texas, New Mexico and Mexico (he and three com-
panions were on the journey something like eight years) he made
mention of the cows (buffalo) which seemed to be innumerable in
the plains area and which the Indians slaughtered for their meat,
hides and bones. All parts of the carcasses were eaten, including
the heart, liver, kidneys and even the entrails. They used the
brains to rub into the hides to soften them; they used the sinews to
sew the hides together to cover the poles of their tepees. They also
used the hides for robes, beds and covers for their shields. The
bones were used for all kinds of utensils, such as horns made into
cups and containers. The thin part of the shoulder blades were
attached to a wooden handle and used for a hoe.
The buffalo furnished everything in the way of food and fiber needed
by the plains Indians who were nomadic since they followed the buff-
alo from their migrations from north to south and vice-versa, as the
seasons changed.
At the time of Cabeza de Vaca's travels (1528- 1536) the horse was
unknown to the plains Indians, and they carried their worldy goods
on their backs or on travois pulled by large dogs, one of the few of
the Indians' domesticated animals.
The following is from a translation of Pedro Castenada's "The
Coronado Expedition" (the translation is not copyrighted).
"Now I wish to describe the appearance of the bulls (Buffalo), there
was not one of the horses that did not take fright when they saw them
for the first time. They have a narrow, short face, the brow two -
palms across from eye to eye, the eyes sticking out on the side, so
that when they are running they can see who is following them.
They have very long beards, like goats, and when they are running
they throw their heads back with the beards dragging the ground.
They have a sort of girdle around the middle of the body. The hair
is very wooly like a sheep's, very fine, and in front of the girdle the
hair is very long and shaggy like a lion's. They have a large hump,
larger than a camel's. The horns are short and thick so that they are
not seen much above the hair. In May they change the hair in the
middle of the body for a down which makes perfect lions of them.
They rub abainst the small trees in the ravines to shed their hair and
they continue this until only the down is left, as a snake sheds his
skin. They have a short tail with a bunch of hairs at the end. When
they run they carry it erect like a scorpion. The little calves are
red, but they change their color with time and age.
"Another strange thing was that all the bulls that were killed had
the left ear split, although they were whole when young. The bulls
traveled by themselves and in such large numbers that no one could
have counted them, and it was more than 40 leagues away where the
cows were seen. This was on the level and smooth plains. "
Coronado and his men, at one place, killed an estimated 500 bulls
and butchered as many as they could and dried the meat.The number
of bulls without cows was incredible. When the Spaniards came to
where the cows were, for 20 leagues they saw nothing but the cows
and the sky.
For almost 340 years the buffalo supported the plains Indians abun-
dantly. No one knows how many buffalo roamed the great plains,
but the herds must have kept up in vast numbers. Charles Goodnight
(1835-1929) said that at one time he saw a stream of buffalo, mi-
grating, in a body of the great beasts about 25 miles wide and 125
miles long.
Incidentally, Mr. Goodnight was one of the few who tried to save
the buffalo from complete extermination. In 1878 he captured two
buffalo calves and built a herd which, eventually, amounted to 250
buffalo.
From Coronado's expedition (1541-1542), as well as subsequent
expeditions, horses escaped and reverted to a wild state. In time the
plains Indians captured and tamed many of the wild horses, mus-
tangs, and the Comanches, in particular, became some of the
world's most expert horsemen. Also, sad to relate, they became
horse thieves without equal. Horses enabled the Comanches to kill
the buffalo more easily and to follow the migration of the great
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CROW FLAT
DOROTHY LEWIS
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Marty Lewis was married to
Leslie Greer on Saturday, Nov-
ember 27, 1993 in the Baptist
Church in Otis, Texas. Marty
is the son of Gerald and Mary
Lewis and the grandson of
Howell and Evelyn Lewis of
Crow Flat. Leslie is the daugh-
ter of Billy and Debbie Greer
of Otis, Texas.
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Evelyn Lewis' sister, Audree
McCardle, and her husband
Edgar and Edgar's sister Sarah
Davison from Brooklyn, New
York came to Dell City to get
Evelyn and take her to Marty's
wedding in Otis, Texas. Evelyn
reports that it was a beautiful
wedding and there were a lot
of people
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Howell, Evelyn, and Pete
Lewis enjoyed Thanksgiving
dinner together. Minnie Lewis
Time: l 3:00 pm
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Lavern Tidwell and Bonnie
Larreau went to Otis to attend
Marty's wedding and stayed in
Carlsbad for a Lewis Thanks-
giving at the home of Thomas
Lewis. Lavern reports that
there was a lot of food, music,
and talking. She enjoyed visit-
ing with her brothers: Jessie,
Thomas, Windy, JP, and sister,
Ollie. Lavern also got to see
her son, Jay.
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When: Saturday, December 11, 1993
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