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BULL SHIPPING IN CENTRAL TEX
I began buying cattle on a commercial basis in the early 1960's after my feed lot business began losing money. I had inh...
Cow Dealing with Lavoy Tubbs
It was August of 1963, and it was hot and dry, a condition that is not unique to Williamson County, Texas. All of the pa...
Dairying In Williamson Count
Photographs of Dub Ramsel and his involvement with dairy farming in Texas are available on the Williamson County Histori...
Dub Ramsel Talks About his S
These stories cover a period from early 1950s to the late eighties. These stories have come from my memory with an occas...
HORSE TRADING IN WILLIAMSON
There were two full time horse traders in Georgetown when I arrived to the County in 1952. Fred Perry lived and had his ...
Jack Murray A Man With A Pla
When I first met Jack Murray shortly after I arrived in Williamson County, I knew that here was a man who knew where he ...
JACK SUDDUTH - A MAN OF FEW
Jack Sudduth grew up in Williamson County Texas and came from a large family of five boys and three girls. When I first ...
Lee Rister - The King of "Di
Some call them ponds and some call them tanks. It made no difference to Lee Rister. He knew how to build them, and when ...
Legacy of John Mc Donald
John H. Mc Donald was born on November 11, 1919 in Jonah, Texas. This day being Veterans Day was cause for a double cele...
LESSONS FROM THE OLD MASTER
One time I called Mr. Carl about a pen of feed lot calves that I ran across that were too heavy for my order most of...
Sheep and goat Business in W
Before the big drought of the 1950's a lot of California Bur clover covered the pastures west of I.H. 35 in Williamson C...
Hot July 4th
The fourth of July - one hell of a hot time of the year. So three if us devised the idea to go to the river where we cou...