Using Rick’s Bar in Hamilton, Texas, as a springboard, this essay explores the history of drinking establishments in the United States, focusing on the western saloon, and then tells the history of saloons in Hamilton, Texas.
Learn about Barzilla Payne, who journeyed from Indiana to Texas and established a new home that was the beginning of the Payne Gap community
Join us on a super-fast trip from the Payne Gap Schoolhouse to Goldthwaite, simultaneously traveling forwards and backwards …
A short biography of Bob Altenloh and an analysis of the 271 “The Moline Menace” columns he wrote for The Goldthwaite Eagle from 1978 through 1984 …
Catalog of the 321 team trophies collected by Star School from 1927 through 2014, the year the school closed …
