The stories that place could tell.

If walls could talk.....

I have been back to this picture a dozen times, there is something about these old falling down houses that screams out to me that someone needs to save them. On an ranch down near Mason there was an old house like this one, one time we went by and the rancher was working on it. A year later it was restored. That was 40 years ago, when I see pics like this I wonder what could be done???

Is this near Jacksboro? Reason I ask is because that area had some of the worst Indian depredations in the state. Many early settlers had to 'fort up' at old fort Richardson, when the Comanches would go on their raids, usually in the summer during a full moon. I used to hunt Wizard wells area. Had a few old rock chimneys on the place where houses once stood. I used my metal detector near one and found an old heavy, metal spoon with U.S. engraved on it. It was about a foot down under the dirt. It is old, and was issued at the fort back in the 1860s. Cool stuff you can find if you take the time.

A - that's cool.

B - wait until it's nearly freezing. You know what's under those floor boards

Here's one that is way back in the middle of nowhere on our lease in Oklahoma.