[Texas Fossil]

Recorded rainfall data for Texas goes back to 1895. And that is State Data. Texas is a very big state. And rainfall varies greatly.

My family arrived in Haskell County in 1889. There was a very bad drought in 1895 that cause some of the family to leave for 3 years and go back to near Austin. This year may have actually been worse than the 1895 drought. But remember weather is very local.

[muawiyah]

Spain tried settling all along the coast all the way to the Mississippi. They got wiped out more than once. That's just one of the reasons there were wild cattle out on the range as well as long legged Spanish pigs (razorbacks) just everywhere.

The conditions were known. They eventually figured out that only Americans could open the country up.