Love those local histories. Some of my people who left Kimble County, Texas, for La Luz, New Mexico, in the early 1880s show up in a similar book on pioneers of Otero County.
Tbar, I don't know if you have any relatives in southern Oregon, but there is a cold case there that still haunts me, as I knew some of their relatives.
https://www.oddmurdersandmysteries.com/unsolved-the-cowden-family-murders/

Books like that are so interesting, especially if you have family ties to that area.

Cool book that touches on some Palo pinto history is Good bye to a river. IMHO it should be on any Texans bookshelf. One of the best.

TBar, I have a couple of old black and white pics of my grandparents and other family members migrating to the Indian Nation (Oklahoma) from Kentucky in about 1890 to 1900. Wagons pulled by a team of mules. They left so my Great Grandfather wouldn’t have to kill anybody else in feuds. They later moved to North Texas around the Muleshoe/Farwell area. They were mostly illiterate so not a lot of written history. I was mostly raised by them. I found a tractor seat to be more comfortable than a saddle.

Things were different then. I recall a neighbor, about 20 years old, being sent to prison on a paternity suit. Local girl named him as the father of her unborn child. The judge told him to marry her. He refused and denied ever having sex with her. He did 2 years in Huntsville. Several years later her brother was found to be the father.

Yep, things were different.

Half of Ector and Andrews county is/was Cowden ranch land.