A History of Grayson County, Texas Page: 9
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THE LAND AND THE FIRST INHABITANTS 9
tongue, rattlesnake flower, standing cypress or Texas
plume, asters, button bush, coreopsis, butterfly bush,
verbena, phlox, ageratum, and on through the entire
catalogue of our beautiful wild flowers. How we
prize the few clumps of Wild Plum, Dogwood, and
Red Bud left in our county now, and the splashes of
color made by the scarlet of the Winter Berry against
the clumps of Red Cedars! Think how beautiful it
must have been before the coming of civilized man
with his complicated needs.
There were native pecans, walnuts, hickory nuts,
the haws with their berries, the stretch berry vine,
dear to the heart of the gum-chewing boys and girls.
Wild blackberries and strawberries abounded; even
as late as 1890 a favorite Sunday afternoon diversion
was a walk to the prairies south of Sherman to gather
wild strawberries. Early settlers tell us there
were no native mesquite trees in this county, the roadways
where it is now found mark the trail over which
the cattle were driven through the county to the markets
in Kansas. One of the most beautiful of our
native trees is the Texas chinaberry of unusual size
and symmetry.
Describing the cross timbers, which border the
county of the west, De Mezies in 1778 wrote: "From
the Brazos River until one reaches Red River, one
sees a forest which the natives call "Monte Grande"
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Lucas, Mattie Davis & Hall, Mita Holsapple. A History of Grayson County, Texas, book, 1936; Sherman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth24648/m1/10/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.