| Vol MMXIII, No 201 | July 19, 1876 | Wednesday Evening |
(1960) 
On this date in 1960, the first Dallas Cowboys training camp opened at Forest Grove, Oregon.
(2002)
On this date in 2002, Austin born musicologist and folk music collector Alan Lomax died in Sarasota Florida. He was the first to record such early folk artists as Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie. To his credit are dozens of collected works of Folk Music. It was Lomax who gave Bob Dylan his legendary thumbs down when Dylan introduced an electric guitar in his performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
(1975)
On this date in 1975, "Lefty" Frizzell dies. His hits included "Long Black Veil" and "Saginaw Michigan" for which he received a grammy.
(1876)
On this date in 1876, Texas and Pacific railroad became the first railroad to reach Fort Worth. Eventually the railroad will extend from Louisiana to El Paso, and be the Primary line to carry passengers and freight westward from Dallas-Fort Worth.
On this date in 1878, Sam Bass and his gang were scouting out banks in Round Rock planning a robbery for the following day. Texas Rangers tipped off that Sam Bass was in town, were waiting in town, but were caught off guard by Bass and his men. In the shootout that followed, one of Bass's gang was killed, one escaped, and Bass himself was fatally wounded. He would die of his injuries two days later.
