A Texas man’s path of exceptional stewardship over a fort that traces back to the 1850s

(True West Magazine) Jim Alexander has always liked November. It’s his birth month—he turns 82 on November 7—and he shares the month with the focus of his life’s work, which has earned him the Chairman’s Award for Exceptional Stewardship of a Historic Property from the Texas Historical Commission.

When Jim was growing up in Jones County in Texas, the ruins “right south of our ranch” were a jumble of stone chimneys and overgrown mesquite trees, he says. Continued