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True Texas Cowboys

by | Mar 1, 2008 | Features & Gunfights

Remembering Great Granddad through historic photographs of South Texas pioneers.
As a teen in the 1880s, my great-grandfather Tolbert Alexander Burford worked as a wrangler and cowboy during the end of the great cattle drives. In the early 19th century, Granddad worked for John B. Slaughter on the Square & Compass ranch near Post, Texas, and with his earnings bought a ranch outside of Ovalo. I was born when Gran


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