Thursday, July 23, 2020

First woman game warden in Texas dies


(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1966, rancher and writer Cordia Duke died.
Born Cordelia Jane Sloan in Missouri in 1877, she taught school as a teenager in the Oklahoma Territory before moving to Sherman County, Texas, to teach in a one-room school near the XIT Ranch.
She married Robert L. Duke, foreman for the Buffalo Springs division of the XIT Ranch, in 1907. Continued

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