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Why would the put the ocean right n3xt to such a low lying town?

Just found your channel; love it. I've chopped a little cedar in my time. I'm a born and raised Texas boy. I've spent many seasons clearing land in various parts of Texas; very hot and many bugs...not for the faint of heart or the physically weak. Westlake is now yuppyville. I found it comforting listening to your voice and the knowledge you are sharing. I now live on Maui; left Austin 9 years ago because everyone and their...dogs...are moving there. You have a new fan... Mahalos (thank you kindly).

Where is this sign behind you located?

Thank you Judge weise.

Thank you for documenting our wonderful Texas history. I am a proud 5th generation Texan - My family is from Paint Rock TX (up by Lubbock) and moved there from Tennessee, shortly before the Civil War. My great grandfather was a doctor and he is thought to have offered the Comanchero tribes medical care if they wouldn't steal his children. He had 8 children and never lost one of them to the indians. I also have roots in Georgetown, and have relatives buried in the Georgetown cemetery. My ancestry includes the Meers family, (Meersbrook rd) in Austin. UT grad and Texas lifelong resident. I have found my youtube channel for the next 49 episodes! Cannot wait to find out more history on the "wise" channel. "God Bless you and God Bless Texas" a quote from the late and great Bob Bullock.

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NOT HERO FOR ME. GOT WHAT THEY GAVE.

Visited Galveston starting in 1982, then moved there in 1991. Great place lots of history. My brother in law worked for TXDOT as an engineer on the ferry for 30 years.

Ma Ferguson, sounds like Ken Paxton/Dan Patrick, the Ferguson home on Beal St, Belton, Tx is still there.

Good job.

Great Texas history.. ty sir

I heard they moved the ambush marker a mile or so down the road to a more suitable area for people to stop and park for photographs.

Great Show my ancestors arrived in Boston, Massachusetts around 1690 we are the Stratton Clan from Scotland!. I love real history many things we are told in history are half truth or just out right lies! James Stratton was born in 1700 me my kids grandchildren and now my great grandchildren are the 11 generations of Americans. I appreciate your information 7th generation Texan!

God's country. Jeff Davis County...Valentine and Fort Davis. Just discovered your site...and sub'd. Excellent.

Did I hear you correctly in this episode that Guadalupe, at this time in Texas history, was pronounced "Waterloo?" If so, does that mean Austin = Waterloo = Guadalupe? And thank you, of course, for the great podcast. As someone who moved here as an adult, it's great to have this resource to learn about the state where I've now spent more than half my life.

Great, thanks!

I heard there was a sub group to the cedar choppers. The charcoal burners…? True story. My friend and I were deep in the woods of the hill country in the early 80s. My buddies dog got shot at. We never got a look at his face. The local police called them lake snakes. This was in or around Jonestown.

Good show! Of course JFK only picked him because being an East Coast lib he definitely needed Southern conservative votes to win the election…

Am I the only one that’s hearing a lot of static and feedback? I’m trying to make sure it’s not either my external speaker, Bluetooth headphones, are my phone -since I’ve tried all three and still here a lot of feedback and static

Where can I find the firsthand account of Samuel Brown that you’re getting your information from? Can you please provide a link if one exists?

What a magnificent project! This should be mandatory learning for every project engineer who ever bids on a government project in the US. Just another thing that makes me proud to be a Texan

Thomas Jefferson Chambers was one of my Great Great Grandfather's. My family still have many items from his estate.

My family and our neighbors spent some time around Sisterdale and Comfort back in the mid 1950s. My dad with a couple of friends/neighbors had a long term deer lease down there. Six or eight carloads of us would head down there during Thanksgiving break to camp out in big tents my dad had bought from an Army surplus store. Women and kids in one and men in the other. I amused myself at the irony of being pretty dang uncomfortable in an Army surplus sleeping bag on a narrow Army cot at Comfort. I have no idea how long we stayed, but it was longer than a weekend. Being the oldest kid and a free-range farm girl I looked for ways to escape being the default babysitter of kids only a few years younger. The "soil" intrigued me because being from the center of the Panhandle where we had 3 to 4 feet of loamy topsoil (previous buffalo and blue gramma grass prairies that could get 3 ft tall) I couldn't imagine how plants grew in that ground to firnish feed for deer, goats or sheep. I'd wander off from camp walking the hills while checking often for my landmarks. My dad loaned me his compass and taught me how to find camp if I became disoriented. Those hills were mountains to this flatlander kid. I looked for arrowheads and other artifacts, but no one bothered explaining where I'd most likely find them so over 4 or 5 trips I found one broken bird point. I still have it. I don't remember thw men doing any hunting during these trips. I think they were prep for when the men went back for deer season - but I'm not sure. I was only seven y.o. the first trip. The Comanches slaughtered hundreds of mostly German immigrants during the settlement era. A fellow named Willbarger wrote a book when some of the survivors were still alive to contribute their anecdotes and rememberances. They were horrid stories of whole family slaughters with perhaps one adolescent boy escaping alone or with a young sibling he had to carry fifty miles. "Indian Depradations in Texas" by Willbarger. Anyone researching German roots in TX (between 1830 - 1870 should read that book. A utoob channel called Unworthy History read many chapters, which were augmented by other books or newspaper reports of the events. Some survivors wrote books of their own. Some ofnthe women who were bought from the indians after yrs of captivity wrote of their own techniques of survival, though most were tortured and killed.

Just came across this, great history!

Grew up in Austin. Lived there from '75 - '07. It got so far out of wack, I moved away. Sad. But still consider it home. Hook 'em 🤘

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Great work! I moved to Austin in 2021 - so cool to learn more about the area, thank you! Sub earned 👍🏻

Actually there were 2 or 3 counties I think they were all in east Texas where you could still hunt deer with dogs around 30 years ago. I did it when I was young and it was an exciting experience. About 10 years ago hunting in Alabama we had deer hunting dogs come on our property and we called the game wardens and they knew who the people were hunting with dogs. It was legal as long as the dogs didn't leave your property. Thanks for your videos. People in the hill country think the cedar is invasive and it needs to be destroyed..Sucking up all the water..This is all just a myth. The cedar is beautiful.

Oh I thought you said "razing" Galveston. Cool.

So very glad to have found your channel. Researched, created and narrated by a real life knowledgeable human, not a computer. Better yet, a channel by and above my home state, Texas

My great grandfather was born in 1895 . His family moved from Louisiana to east Texas settling about 90 miles north of Galveston in 1900. He told the story of one of his earliest childhood memories at the age of 5 was when the storm hit Galveston his family (being poor) erected an old style log cabin on this property 90 miles north of Galveston. When the storm hit they had the logs mortised in but had not sealed the cracks with mud and he believed that was the only reason the high winds (90 miles away) did not blow their cabin down. And he even laughed that during the storm he felt as though he was going to be blown through those cracks . But he did say they were terrified and wasn’t sure if they would survive.

In east Austin in the '50s and '60s, there were the cedar choppers (white) and meskins (mexican american).

This story is close to my heart. Oliver Loving and I share a great grandfather. Oliver’s 2x great grandfather is my 6x great grandfather. Two of John David Loving’s sons were Gabriel and Christopher. Oliver is from Gabriel’s line. I am from Christopher’s. I have read a lot about their history but feel I’ve just scratched the surface. Thank you for making this video. 💛

The smell of cedar on a hot summer day, makes me tired. It smells like work.

I don't know about stove wood. Kindling, sure but my Großmutter cooked on a woodstove and cedar as stovewood was a no-no. It burns to hot & will burn out your stove. It's fine for starting a fire in a fireplace but small pieces at first only. It's resin pops like the devil and will burn your floor.

Back in 1982 I move to the Lake Travis area and worked on RM 620 east of 183. At lunch we went to a small convenience store and then drove off the road to a small area in the woods. It was next to a small graveyard with no fence . It had maybe 30 graves there which half of them had headstones made out of limestone. About half were in the shape of cedar logs or stumps. None of us realized then that it was a cedar choppers cemetery. I don’t know what happened to the cemetery because it’s all houses and neighborhoods now.

1st time seeing/hearing your podcast about Texas, I am now a subscriber..Your delivery is very down to earth! Being a native Texan for 75 years i have always been interested in Texas history especially here in San Antonio. My ancestors were some of the original families that came to Texas from the Canary Islands in 1731, I'm wandering if there are any episodes about that? My niece did a complete research back to then..Thank You...Manny

This was fascinating. I went to iTunes and subscribed there too.

These 'law men' were KILLERS just like Bonnie and Clyde except more calculated and heartless!

You mentioned a few other episodes on this topic. Any chance we could get a playlist created so I could watch them in the order you recommend?

Really appreciate the history. I’m viewing it in August 2024. I’m in arborist so no air-conditioning. 😉

What’s with the pictures? No idea on how you can get there.

I remember XERF AM 1570 in Cd Acuna Mexico......with Wolfman Jack..... received in Lake Elsinore California at night doing the 1970s....

I can't find a source for the claim that Bonnie gave every member of the gang an std.

Hunting B. & Clyde; Hamer balked at the compensation of $180 a month, less than half his current pay, but Simmons reiterated that Hamer would collect his fair share of the reward money. He further added to the deal by authorizing Hamer to take whatever he wanted from among the Barrow Gang's possessions when he caught them.

Great story. Thanks for sharing.

Those were some gut wrenching accounts well told. It feels especially tragic if you've experienced a big one. Thank science for giving us days to prepare now for these inevitable monsters.

God Bless Texas🎉

I guess you're a Texas historian. So I'll give you a bit more information. Sally had children, but she gave them away on term to provid for those children. I know my great grandfather had three sisters. One of them had married a man with the last name " Skull". W.T. Dorsett Sr. Was born to Theodore Monroe Dorsett and Mary Polly Winfree in 1845 Liberty, Texas. A lot of the familly has been baried in Gudalupe County, Texas. And some in Brownsville, Texas. 24:41

Okay, there's my first comment. 😊