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Lore of the Llano Estacado
As great as was the contribution to picturesque diction
found in the nicknames of the buffao camps, the contribution
made in place names was even greater. It was natural that
the unnamed landmarks should receive the attention of the
hunters. The results are to be observed from the northern
extremities of the Panhandle to the breaks of the Plains on
the south.
The highest point in Lubbock County, about five miles
northeast of the city, is called Causey Hill after George Causey,
an old hunter along the Yellowhouse. Davidson Draw, some
fourteen miles to the east, was the site of the dugout of an-
other hunter by the name of Bill Davidson. A party of Indians
passed through the country in 1878 and gave Bill such a scare
that he hurriedly departed, leaving not only his buffalo guns
and skinning knives behind him, but likewise his name.'
Far to the east we find Schimerhorn Mountain. During
the winter of 1876 Hank Smith, Judge John Schimerhorn, and
three others set out from Fort Griffin to Blanco Canyon.
They went to locate a ranch for a young Philadelphian, Charles
P. Tasker, and an Irish lord by the name of Jamison. Schimer-
horn's ambitions ran to other things than the mastery of
Blackstone when he undertook to kill a buffalo bull with an
old "pepper-box" gun. The bull took offense at the insult,
Schimerhorn sought safety in flight and fled to the mountain
for refuge, "and the name of the mountain was bestowed in
honor of the refugee."2
The trader always presses close upon the receding wilder-
ness, and there came to the buffalo range one Pete Snyder,
seeking whatever adventure and fortune might be found
upon the South Plains. He settled upon Deep Creek in Scur-
ry County, built a house of log framework, covered it with
buffalo hides, and opened a trading post for the benefit of
the hunters and the pecuniary advantages it offered himself.
Thus a "hide town" was started. No sooner had a saloon
opened than the tread of the hunter changed to the roaring
stampede of civilization, and Snyder, Texas, was born.
2R. C. Burns to J. E. H., October 29, 1926.
a2The Crosbyton Review, February 29, 1912.
1J. W. Woody to J. E. H., October 19, 1926.81
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Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964. Texas and Southwestern Lore, book, 1927; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67662/m1/83/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.