Bombs Over Texas

“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” Mark Twain once said. Obviously, Samuel Langhorne Clemens never met Robert G. Dyrenforth. A U.S. Department of Agriculture special agent, Dyrenforth had been educated at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and Columbian University (now George Washington University) in Washington, D.C. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army, learning how to work with explosives, and was wounded twice. Dyrenforth als