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SIXTY YEARS IN TEXAS. 173
And when the weather is growing warm
We use the electric fan,
And we all enjoy the comfort
Of this artificial plan.
We ride in electric carriages,
In company and alone,
And talk with people miles away
Over the telephone.
Our women are modest, fair and beautiful,
And all like ladies, dressing neat,
And are equal to the queens of old
When seen upon the street.
And our country is rich and beautiful,
Although it was abhorred,
It is like a flowery kingdom
Or the garden of the Lord.
It has grown to a mighty nation,
After going through the rub,
And we have many commercial cities,
And our Dallas is the Hub.
-Geo. Jackson.
FROM JOHN HENRY BROWN'S HISTORY
OF DALLAS COUNTY
By the kindness and permission of Miss Lizzie
C. and Marion Taylor Brown, daughters of the late
John Henry Brown, I have gotten the names of many
of the officers of Dallas County from the beginning
up to the year 1887 from John Henry Brown's History
of the County, and also the account of the Grand
Prairie fight and the murder of Clements and Whistler
and families, and Dr. Calder, of Dallas, and many
others. I later became acquainted with nearly all
of the men that were in the Grand Prairie fight.
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Jackson, George. Sixty years in Texas, book, 1908; Dallas, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20205/m1/187/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.