Purple Prose on the Land of the Violet Crown
A would-be Panther City poet ventures into the primordial Hill Country
For the simple and basic reason of near-total inaccessibility, the Texas Hill Country remained terra incognita to all but a hardy few settlers and a few determined travelers until the late 1920s. Even then, what passed for “roads” in the higher and more isolated tracts of the Hill Country were rutted dirt roads, better suited to donkeys and mules than c…
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