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xi Many acknowledgments are in order. First, and foremost, to my wife and companion, Gayla Neal, who is also my secretary, research assistant, and the doer of all manner of other unglamorous tasks. Thanks are also in order to Katherine Hinkebein for her insightful suggestions on manuscript improvements and to Hanaba Munn Welch for her research assistance and map drawing. I need to say “thanks” once more to a couple of college classmates of yesteryear for their unfailing help and encouragement: Mike Cochran, veteran newspaper reporter for the Associated Press and the Fort Worth StarTelegram and Dr. David McPherson, retired University of New Mexico English professor and Shakespeare scholar. I must also say thanks for much appreciated support and encouragement from that evercheerful and uplifting history scholar, Dr. Garry L. Nall, editor of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Review. A couple of my courtroom friends from my pre-retirement lawyering years should also be thanked: the Honorable Judge John T. Forbis of Childress, Texas, retired judge of the 100th Judicial District Court for sharing with me stories of colorful lawyers of yesteryear, and my friend, Earl Griffin, Esquire, of Childress , Texas, with whom I crossed swords in more than a few criminal cases, for his research help and support. Also for my son, Monte Neal, for his manuscript suggestions and photographic assignments and to Allen Kimble for his photographic assignments. Also appreciated are Tai Kreidler, Monte Monroe, Lynn Whitfield , and the staff at the Southwest Collections/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University; Warren Stricker, research center director at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum; Donaly Brice and John Anderson, Texas State Library and Archives Commission; Cathy Spitzenberger at the University of Texas at Arlington Library Special Collections; Jill Henderson, librarian at the Taylor County, Texas Law Library; Patrick Lemmelle, University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute of Texan Cultures; and personnel at the Jamail A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S xii Acknowledgments Center for Legal Research at the Tarleton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin. Thanks also to court clerks in Fort Worth, Amarillo, Vernon, Memphis, Quanah, Benjamin, and Seymour. ...

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