greybeard
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cowboy43":3p9wfbcd said:In Goliad County Tx 13 were killed and 10 injured riding in a Ford F250 when a tire blew and the truck crashed into a tree, there were 23 riding in the truck.
I hope it wasn't that old oak "hanging tree" that was in the middle of Goliad. Fear not tho, the names of the recently departed have undoubtedly already been added to the voting rolls of some swing state up north, where evidently, it's perfectly acceptable and legal for dead folks to vote early and vote often.
Keeping this in the cattle scheme of things tho...
Goliad is one of my favorite places to visit. Most people know of the battle of Goliad, but the fight really took place some distance from the town near a little community now called Fannin. After the battle, the survivors were force marched into Goliad where most were executed and the battlefield just grew up with mesquite and sage, all but forgotten, and the site probably would have been lost to history except for a local rancher had the insight to go out and drive a big metal mill spike into thew ground--sticking up about 4'. I haven't looked for it the last few times I went down there, but it was there when I first visited in the late 60s. That battleground is one of the few that hasn't been "commecialized", doesn't get a lot of visitors, is still pretty much 'natural' and you can stand in the middle of it on a fall day, and still let your mind visualize what it must have been like back on that fateful day in 1835--all because a cattleman had a sense way back then to realize that this was hallowed ground.
I'm sure people from that area know more about it than I do, but I thought I'd throw a little history into this one.