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	<title>Abilene and Taylor County, Texas History Podcasts</title>
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	<description>Telling the stories, legends and tales of Abilene and Taylor County, Texas.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<copyright>&#xA9;David Gibson </copyright>
		<managingEditor>abitxhistory@gmail.com (David Gibson)</managingEditor>
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		<category>Society &amp; Culture:History</category>
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		<itunes:keywords>Texas, History, Abilene, Taylor County</itunes:keywords>
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		<itunes:summary>Telling the stories, legends and tales of Abilene and Taylor County, Texas.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>David Gibson</itunes:author>
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			<itunes:name>David Gibson</itunes:name>
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		<title>The Comanche Indian Reservation</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/29/the-comanche-indian-reservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frontier Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Comanche]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas legislature passed a law on February 6, 1854, that established the Brazos Indian Reservationqv for the Caddos, Wacos, and other Indians, and also provided four square leagues of land, or 18,576 acres, for a Comanche reserve to be located at Camp Cooper on the Clear Fork of the Brazos in Throckmorton County. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tonkawa Indians of Texas</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/22/the-tonkawa-indians-of-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frontier Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tonkawa Indians were actually a group of independent bands, the Tonkawas proper, the Mayeyes, and a number of smaller groups that may have included the Cava, Cantona, Emet, Sana, Toho, and Tohaha Indians. The remnants of these tribes united in the early eighteenth century in the region of Central Texas. The Yojaune Indians, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Early History of Pioneer Settlers - H. A. Tillett</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/20/an-early-history-of-pioneer-settlers-h-a-tillett/</link>
		<comments>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/20/an-early-history-of-pioneer-settlers-h-a-tillett/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1880s]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Abilene]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Taylor County]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cockrell]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teacher]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tillett]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abilenetexashistory.com/?p=55</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I came here in 1883 as a black haired boy, and now I’m a white haired man,” said H. A. Tillett, prefacing his account of the forty years he has spent in Abilene.
“I arrived with $400 borrowed money and $2,000 debts, sick with rheumatism caused by being flood bound while teaching school in Arkansas.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prehistory of West Texas</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/15/prehistory-of-west-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/15/prehistory-of-west-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frontier Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[prehistory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indian culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paleo-Indians]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vegetation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Changes in Texas vegetation during the past 30,000 years offer us clues about climatic changes, about the animals that once lived here, and about the hardships the earliest Texans, the Paleo-Indians, had to face in their daily quest for food and shelter.

The years 30,000-22,500 B.C. were an interlude between two major glacial periods in North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Early History of Pioneer Settlers - K. K. Legett</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/13/an-early-history-of-pioneer-settlers-k-k-legett/</link>
		<comments>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/13/an-early-history-of-pioneer-settlers-k-k-legett/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1870s]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[1880s]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Abilene]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Taylor County]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Gap]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Legett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Judge K. K. Legett, one of the most prominent of the Taylor county pioneers, was born in Arkansas, November 6, 1857.  He received his early education in the public schools, mostly in the country, but since completing that early struggle with the “Three R’s”, he has been constantly acquiring increased knowledge through numerous post-graduate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transportation in Early West Texas - The Butterfield Overland Mail Route</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/08/transportation-in-early-west-texas-the-butterfield-overland-mail-route/</link>
		<comments>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/08/transportation-in-early-west-texas-the-butterfield-overland-mail-route/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abilenet</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Frontier Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Taylor County]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Butterfield Overland Mail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Concord Coaches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1857 a congressional act authorized the establishment of a mail contract to convey letters twice weekly, in both directions, between St. Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee, in the east and San Francisco, California, in the west. The act also stipulated that four-horse coaches suitable for carrying passengers would carry the mail.  A final [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nubia Texas</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/05/nubia-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/05/nubia-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abilenet</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Taylor County]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nubia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a young man growing up in Taylor County, I had never heard of the town of Nubia.  Seems it was too small in the 1970&#8217;s to notice.  But, as I&#8217;ve read about the history of the county, I&#8217;ve learned that Nubia, Texas was once a thriving community with several business, churches, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juanita Daniel Zachry Remembered</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/03/juanita-daniel-zachry-remembered/</link>
		<comments>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/08/03/juanita-daniel-zachry-remembered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abilenet</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Abilene]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Taylor County]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ARN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Juanita Daniel Zachry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obituary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just learned of the loss of Juanita Daniel Zachry.  Mrs. Zachry was the premier historian for Abilene and Taylor County, an author of many other stories in books and magazines, and by all accounts a wonderful person.  I never had the chance to meet Mrs. Zachry but her books on local history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Long Remembered</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/07/26/charles-long-remembered/</link>
		<comments>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/07/26/charles-long-remembered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Post-1950]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Anson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ford]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Long]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obituary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abilenetexashistory.com/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a child growing up in the Abilene area, I saw my share of locally generated commercials on the television.  One series of commercials that has never left my mind were those with &#8220;Charles Long of Middlebrook Ford in Anson,&#8221; as was always stated at the end of the commercial.  I remember Mr. Long with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Texas State Genealogical Society Is Coming to Abilene</title>
		<link>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/06/02/the-texas-state-genealogical-society-is-coming-to-abilene/</link>
		<comments>http://abilenetexashistory.com/2008/06/02/the-texas-state-genealogical-society-is-coming-to-abilene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abilene]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Genealogical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Conference]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas State Genealogical Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[West Texas Genealogical Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently sat down with Joy Wiley of the Abilene Public Library, at which time she told me that the Texas State Genelogical Society is coming to Abilene for their annual conference.  This conference, the 48th, is hosted by the West Texas Genealogical Society and will take place at the MCM Elegante Suites, 4250 Ridgemont [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>I recently sat down with Joy Wiley of the Abilene Public Library, at which time she told me that the Texas State Genelogical Society is ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>I recently sat down with Joy Wiley of the Abilene Public Library, at which time she told me that the Texas State Genelogical Society is coming to Abilene for their annual conference. nbsp;This conference, the 48th, is hosted by the West Texas Genealogical Society and will take place at the MCM Elegante Suites, 4250 Ridgemont Drive here in Abilene, on October 24th and 25, 2008. nbsp;The conference will host a number of vendors as well as experts in the genealogical arena. nbsp;Listen in on this conversation as Joy explains what will be available at the conference tonbsp;amateurnbsp;and professional genealogists alike.</itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:author>David Gibson</itunes:author>
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