Images courtesy of Nola Rogers
Ready for the Pruitt cattle roundup (283 KB)
Taken in Taylor County, Texas. In the past the cowboys round up the cattle once a year and sort out the three year old steers from the main herd which were then sent to market and the calves were branded. The Taylor County courthouse has the register of cattle and horse brands.
Oil was discovered in the sands from 250 to 4,500 feet and there were thousands of wells were producing oil in a 75 mile radius of Abilene, TX. History. Howdy!
Oil field Taylor Co., TX.
Shipping yards and feed mill, Abilene, TX. Railheads became centers of the cattle
industry. Longhorns were shipped to meat packing plants in Chicago.
Elias Pruitt & George Pruitt tanning cattle hides?
Is that an oil well gushing in the background? Early 1900s.
Cattle Pens, Abilene, TX.
Note the railroad tracks and a box car near the building.
Taylor
Co. Texas school basketball team (61 KB)
The names are on the back: Grace Lee, Opal Maples, Francis Mayes, Bertha Manuell, Mile
Willie Hale, Alene Furgerson and Willie Pruitt (behind basketball). Willie Matildia Pruitt
was born Jan 10 1896 Abilene, Texas. Age about twelve years in the school photo. Many of
the rural schools had teams.
Willie
Pruitt and friend (69 KB)
(Abilene, Texas, no date) What is the name of the school?
Where this bridge is and what river does cross?
On way to wedding in Abilene.
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Abilene City Directory, 1907-08, West Texas Business College was located at 1165-1/2 North 2nd Street. Gaston Hill was President, T. H. Gatlin, Sec., and T. H Vinson, Trav. Rep.
Can anyone identify the structures above? Any information about the buildings appreciated.
The centipede runs across my head,
The vinegaroon crawls in my bed,
Tarantulas jump and scorpions play,
The broncs are grazing far away,
The rattlesnakes gives his warning cry,
And the coyotes sing their lubbaby,
While I sleep soundly beneath the sky.
