Word: stricklands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas originally gave title to the land in question to an illiterate young Southerner named Wilson Strickland who had migrated west, presumably had fought in the Texas revolution. The tract was hilly, bone-dry, good for nothing except a scrubby growth of pine, and Strickland never bothered with it. He left Montgomery County, vanished into mists of hearsay; some people said he had been shot to death. In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $200 debt, got a judgment against the land. But Vince never bothered with it either...