Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 7, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 3, 2012 Page: 12 of 20
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contest. Amanda Walker,
Youth Chairman presented
Quintero with a certificate
and a check.
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thought it really captured all
the hard times we have to
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in our lives that can’t be
replaced. The fears and the
sadness that we see and feel
are in this picture,” she added
Brittany Quintero, shown at left, receives the first place VFW Ladies Auxiliary
Youth Creative Patriotic Art Contest award from Amanda Walker, auxiliary
youth chairman.
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The winning entry in the Youth Creative Patriotic Art Contest is a tribute those
who died during the terrorist attack on the TWin Towers and the soldiers who
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of Texas’ best known authors
wrote portions of one of his
best-known books while
sequestered in a tarpaper-
covered shack in the Chisos
Basin.
J. Frank Dobie, raised
n the flat brush country of
iouth Texas and schooled
n humid Central Texas at
jeorgetown’s Southwest-
ern University, first saw the
ugh, dry Big Bend country
n 1910 when he got off the
rain at Alpine. Fresh out of
ollege, he had been hired to
each English at Alpine High
Ichool. Being the only male
acuity member, he also - at
wenty-two - would be the
chool’s principal.
Dobie’s letters to his future
vife Bertha reveal that while
le didn’t like the isolation of
he small West Texas ranch-
ng town, he did appreciate
hat he had come just about
is close to what remained of
rentier Texas as he would
ver get. While in Alpine,
vhere he lived in a boarding
louse, he became acquainted
vith John Young, an old
Iouth Texas cowboy. Though
chooled in the classics, the
jOung teacher-headmaster
liked to listen to oldtimers
like Young hold forth on their
adventurous salad days.
After classes ended in the
spring of 1911, Dobie got
offered a teaching job at his
alma mater’s prep school
back in Georgetown and
quickly accepted it. While
the rancher’s kids he taught
probably ended up knowing
more about English poetry
than they thought useful, the
payoff for Dobie’s Alpine
stint was his association
with Young, which in 1929
culminated in his first book,
“A Vaquero of the Brush
Country.”
Producing a succession of
books after that, including
the best-selling collection
of treasure stories he called
“Coronado’s Children,” by
the late 1930s Dobie had
become a Texas icon. And in
1938, he signed a contract to
produce a book on another
Texas icon, the longhorn.
In January 1939, Do-
bie holed up for a time at
the four-year-old Civilian
Conservation Corps camp in
the Chisos Basin, the future
heart of Big Bend National
Park. While CCC men blazed
trails, graded roads and
built infrastructure, Dobie
worked to cobble together
earlier longhorn stories he
had written while also adding
new material for a weak that
would bear the simple title
“The Longhorns.”
What little is known of
Dobie’s stay in the Big Bend
may be credited to Fred
Gipson, then a roving colum-
nist for Texas’ Harte-Hanks
newspaper chain. Gipson,
who while a student at the
University of Texas had taken
Dobie’s popular Southwest-
ern literature course, proba-
bly remembered Dobie better
than Dobie remembered
him. A sucessful if typically
low-paid journalist, Gipson
still chafed at the suggestion
Dobie had made after read-
ing some of his work at UT
- don’t figure on a career as
a wirier. > ;
Nevertheless, the affable,
white-haired writer gracious-
ly greeted Gipson at the door
of the CCC structure he had
been living in.
“Come into this house,” he
said, taking Gipson’s hand
in both of his. Inside, the air
was thick with Dobie’s pipe
smoke.
“How’s the Texas longhorn
book coming?” Gipson soon
asked. He saw paper in a
typewriter on a small table ,
and a clutter of notes on a
bigger table nearby.
“I’m just this minute chas-
ing a longhorn bull over a
ridge,” Dobie said. “But sit
down and tell me about your-
self. I don’t think that bull
will get away for a little bit.”
They rolled cigarettes and
talked. After the smokes, Do-
bie led Gipson outside for a
commentary on the magnifi-
cent peaks circling the basin.
Even though he was there to
write about a notable breed of
See DOBIE, Page 6B
Gunda Windham
celebrates birthday
Gunda (Arit) Windham cel-
ebrated her 85th birthday on
May 29.
Bom in Wieden, Germany,
in 1927. She moved to Mu-
nich as a baby and was raised
there. After World War II, she
met the love of her life, Odis
Windham in Munich in 1946.
Odis is a native Texan and
was an Army MP.
They married Nov. 27,
1954 in Munich. In. 1959, the
welcomed their only child,
Cindy Windham Hill.
During Odis’s Army ser-
vice, the family moved sev-
eral times. They spent a brief
time in Albuquerque, N.M.
and Leesville, La., as well
as several bases in Germany.
They moved to Texas in 1968
when he retired from the
military. > ,»*>..
Gunda managed a handbag
store, “The Cul de Sac” in
GUNDA WINDHAM
the Galleria for more than 20
years. She and Odis retired to
Livingston in 1989.
She has two grandsons ,
Jeffrey, 27, and Scott, 24,
who live in California.
The family plans a birthday
celebration in June.
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Reddell, Valerie. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 7, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 3, 2012, newspaper, June 3, 2012; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth657870/m1/12/?q=dobie: accessed June 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.