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TEXAS HIGHWAYS--GILLETTE CAPTIONS--MALLORY
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[FACING PAGE] Beneath hanging Spanish moss, three caballeros--Gillette's
sons, Pipp and Guy, and ranch-hand Dayton Owens--cross the wooden bridge
over Gail Creek.
[ABOVE] Sunset spreads over the town of Lovelady, where Lucy Porter
operated a general store for nearly 40 years.
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A country girl on her front porch overlooks wide farm fields--a quintessential
view of traditional rural East Texas.
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Grandsons in tow, "Big Daddy" Porter saddles up to the lunch counter at
Arnold's Cafe in Lovelady.
During two decades of summer visits to East Texas, Gillette's sons learned that
ranch work proceeds come rain or come shine.
A farm wife shows off her chicken flock to the young minister's wife near the
community of Antioch.
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Dawn breaks over a cow-camp at the Porter ranch. In the 1980's, Gillette's sons
returned to the ranch, restored its neglected structures, and revived its cattle
operation.
[FACING PAGE, FAR LEFT]
At Trinity, volunteers from the church in Antioch tear down an old house to use
the wood for a church project.
[FACING PAGE, LEFT]
Son Guy and longtime ranch-hand Dayton Owens water their horses along a
creek at the forest's edge.P. 29
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Mallory, Randy. [Gillette captions], text, 1999-11~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1924076/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.