| Vol 8, No 170 | June 18, 1924 | Wednesday Evening |
On this date in 1915, legendary oil well fire fighter Red Adair was born in 1915. He extinquished well fires around the world, some burning for as much as six months. He was among the first to put out the well fires in Kuwait in 1991 at the end of Desert Storm. John Wayne played him in the 1868 action film, "Hellfighters".
(1924)
In an effort to clear her husbands name, who was impeached while Governor, Mrs Miriam A Ferguson (Ma Ferguson) opened her campaign to run for governor herself, on this date in 1924.
(1877)
On this date in 1877, shortly after the Indians had been moved to reservations in Oklahoma and New Mexico, Charles Goodnight and John Adair form the J.A. Ranch, the first ranch in the Panhandle. In the months that preceded, Goodnight moved his 1,600 head of cattle from New Mexico to the Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle, thinking that the canyon would form a natural shelter and help contain the cattle. Goodnight would help to establish several of the cattle trails between Texas and the railheads in Kansas. Over the next few years, windmills, rodeos and eventually barbed wire would become a regular part of life in West Texas.
