An edition of Reflections from the Flo Crossroads: True Stories From a Native Son of a Country Crossroads
(1994)
Reflections from the Flo Crossroads
True Stories From a Native Son of a Country Crossroads
1st ed.
by Taylor, Mark
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There are thousands of country crossroads in America. Each has a name and a history known to the inhabitants of the local area, although unheard of elsewhere. This book is about one of these crossroads-the joys and sorrows, trials and tribulations, successes and failures of the people of have inhabited the area since the Civil War. It contains true stories of humor, joy, adventure, tragedy, sorrow and human interest that depict the resourcefulness and indomitable spirit of country people in America when faced with what appears to be insurmountable obstacles.
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Reflections from the Flo Crossroads: True Stories From a Native Son of a Country Crossroads
1994, Wheelock Creek Pub.
in English
- 1st ed.
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First Sentence
"Back in the nineteen-thirties, life in the country crossroads community of Flo, Texas was not so easy as it is now."
Table of Contents
Introduction
Page i
Maps
Page v
Photographs
Page 287
I.
Potpourri
Page 1
1.
Heaven Is Going To The Flo Store
Page 3
2.
The Broken Thermometer
Page 5
3.
The Mocking Laugh
Page 6
4.
The Tattletale
Page 8
5.
The Young Gamblers
Page 10
6.
The Las Vegas Smile
Page 12
7.
Some Died Young
Page 14
8.
The Carpenter
Page 16
9.
Ed's First Airplane
Page 17
10.
The Grapevine Booby Trap
Page 19
11.
Never Trust a Mustang
Page 22
II.
The Early Years (1860-1920)
Page 25
12.
The Flo, Texas Arena Slaves
Page 27
13.
The Leon County Gunfighters
Page 37
14.
The Country Doctor
Page 55
15.
Beating the Snake
Page 61
16.
Brother Chase
Page 64
17.
Fishing the Cutoff
Page 67
18.
Blue Baby
Page 71
19.
The Crocuses
Page 74
20.
The Watermelon Patch
Page 79
21.
The Taylor Girls
Page 82
III.
The Middle Years (1921-1940)
Page 85
22.
The Bill Farrell Tragedy
Page 87
23.
The Murder of Luke Price
Page 93
24.
Aunt Matt and Uncle Wiley
Page 100
25.
The Great Sandflat Confrontation
Page 102
26.
The Spring Frog
Page 107
27.
Literary Man
Page 109
28.
The Bath
Page 115
29.
The Pseudo-Handicap
Page 117
30.
The Balking House
Page 151
31.
Flo's First School Bus Driver
Page 125
32.
Eli and Ol' Red
Page 131
33.
The Knucks
Page 134
34.
The Tiger
Page 137
35.
Santa Claus in Overalls
Page 139
36.
The Fishing Secret
Page 146
37.
The Fox Hunter
Page 153
38.
The Bee Tree Hunting Contest
Page 159
39.
The Red Wagon
Page 164
40.
The Spike Buck
Page 166
41.
The Colorado CCC Camp
Page 173
42.
The Woodsman
Page 175
43.
The Black Sheep
Page 179
IV.
The Later Years (1941-1993)
Page 183
44.
The Crosscut Saw
Page 185
45.
Leroy Wilson's Brand
Page 188
46.
The Training of Ol' Jack
Page 191
47.
Joe Bell's Old Sow
Page 198
48.
Hog Stealer
Page 202
49.
Ol' Blue
Page 206
50.
Tom Bill Featherston, Lived Hard, Died Young
Page 217
51.
A DamnYankee Comes to Leon County
Page 228
52.
Daylight Saving Time
Page 239
53.
The Drumstick
Page 242
54.
No Longer A Quail Hunter
Page 245
55.
Changing Times
Page 249
56.
The Pet Donkey
Page 252
57.
The Telephone Man
Page 261
58.
Help from A Black Family
Page 263
59.
The Hopewell Negro Church
Page 266
60.
Leon County, No Medical Utopia
Page 271
61.
The Wood Thievs
Page 277
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