Cyclone hits Mobeetie

Photo courtesy of the Texas State Historical Association

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1898, the Panhandle community of Mobeetie was devastated by a cyclone.
The community, considered the "mother city" of the Panhandle, developed from Charles Rath and Bob Wright's supply store on Sweetwater Creek at a buffalo-hunters' camp called Hidetown in 1874, and grew to 150 residents the following summer as a trading post for nearby Fort Elliott. The village was located at the southern end of the Jones and Plummer Trail and was a center of activity for the buffalo-hide trade. Continued

First county in Texas Panhandle organized

Photo: wheelertexas.org

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1879, Wheeler County became the first organized county in the Texas Panhandle.
The Kiowas and Comanches, who displaced the earlier Apache peoples around 1700, dominated the area until the mid-1870s. By that time buffalo hunters had already established a settlement, called Hidetown or Sweetwater, in the area. Continued

R.I.P. Alan Bean

(Wikipedia) Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018; CAPT, USN, Ret.) was an American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3.
… Bean was born March 15, 1932, in Wheeler, the seat of Wheeler County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle. Continued

First county in Texas Panhandle organized

Photo: wheelertexas.org

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1879, Wheeler County became the first organized county in the Texas Panhandle.
The Kiowas and Comanches, who displaced the earlier Apache peoples around 1700, dominated the area until the mid-1870s. By that time buffalo hunters had already established a settlement, called Hidetown or Sweetwater, in the area. Continued

Cyclone hits Mobeetie

Photo courtesy of the Texas State Historical Association

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1898, the Panhandle community of Mobeetie was devastated by a cyclone.
The community, considered the "mother city" of the Panhandle, developed from Charles Rath and Bob Wright's supply store on Sweetwater Creek at a buffalo-hunters' camp called Hidetown in 1874, and grew to 150 residents the following summer as a trading post for nearby Fort Elliott. The village was located at the southern end of the Jones and Plummer Trail and was a center of activity for the buffalo-hide trade. Continued

First county in Texas Panhandle organized

Photo: wheelertexas.org

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1879, Wheeler County became the first organized county in the Texas Panhandle.
The Kiowas and Comanches, who displaced the earlier Apache peoples around 1700, dominated the area until the mid-1870s. By that time buffalo hunters had already established a settlement, called Hidetown or Sweetwater, in the area. Continued

Alan Bean

(Wikipedia) Alan LaVern Bean (born March 15, 1932), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969.
... Bean was born March 15, 1932, in Wheeler, the seat of Wheeler County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle. Continued