The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 298
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Two new papers recently written by Professor Geiser are:
"Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh, and the Discovery of East Texas
Oil," Field & Laboratory, XII, No. 2, June, 1944, pp. 46-55,
portrait; and in the same number "Racer's Storm (1837), with
notes on other Texas hurricanes in the period 1818-1886," pp.
59-67.
The expressions of appreciation of Evetts Haley's letter in
the last Texas Collection have been many. For example, Savoie
Lottinville, Director of the University of Oklahoma Press, says:
"We have certainly enjoyed the July issue of the Quarterly.
If anybody has ever thought that the art of letter writing has
been lost, he will get the facts straight when he reads Evetts
Haley's swell piece in the July number." About a year ago
Evetts wrote me: "This summer has been a bear, but, thank
God, it's about over. I suppose I'll be hoping for the same with
winter long before it is gone. But so it goes: Western man was
never satisfied with the seasons, but he is never satisfied any-
where but in the West." The January 8, 1944, storm seems
destined to become a classic in the western country, and the
following letter, written while the wind was howling, is a
vigorous documentary picture.
JH Ranch
January 8, 1944
Dear Bailey:
I should have gotten a note off to you sooner, but the weather has been
giving us unadulterated hell, and I have had no time nor inclination, had
there been time, to think about anything else but the problems that the
elements have imposed.
Frankly, I do not see how we can come through this winter. It will be
one for the book. Yesterday was the worst day I have ever seen. I was
over at the Ds, our ranch west of here, for several days prior to yesterday,
and while I rode from early day until after dark on the 6th, and came
in with frostbitten hands and got the coldest I have been in a long time,
still it was tolerable. But no man could have lived long yesterday in
that one, horseback. It was one time I have seen a wind that no matter
how well dressed you were in Texas cowboy fashion-would actually
knock the breath out of you when you first turned to face it. It would
leave you gasping for a little while as though you had jumped into a
lake of ice water.
It is a round month tonight since the first bad one hit, and we have
not been clear of snow since. My country here is very rough, and hence
was melting off faster than the other ranch, but on the north slopes and
on the level ground, where the sun just hits and glances off, we have had
from six inches to a foot ever since Dec. 9. On the 27th we had another
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