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Chuck Lanehart Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and historian. Romantics since antiquity have known one way to a woman’s heart is verse, especially verse about the target of affection. Music icons of West Texas – familiar with the concept – produced great love songs glorifying their g...

Chuck Lanehart Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and historian. His iconic contemporary, Buddy Holly often praised his South Plains heritage, but superstar rock balladeer Roy Orbison was critical of his own West Texas roots. Orbison said, “If you grow up in West Texas, there are a lot of w...

Caprock Chronicles: The Mescalero Apaches in West Texas Sherry Robinson Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a retired librarian from Texas Tech University Library. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by Sherry Robinson, the author of “I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches.” When the government created a reservation for Mescalero Apaches in southeastern New Mexico in 1873, near Fort Stanton, it soon drew to it Lipans...

Caprock Chronicles: Anglin, other Lubbock firefighters, learned CPR in 1963 John McCullough Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a retired Librarian from Texas Tech. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. This week’s article is written by John McCullough, author and aviation historian of Lubbock, who holds a master’s degree in history from Texas Tech. Horace Anglin is a retired fire chief with the Lubbock Fire Department. Around 1963, he and other fire...

The wife of a ranch hand on the Tahoka Lake Ranch brought the purple aster to light. A garden club member in Lubbock sent the seeds back East. As you read this, I am on vacation. Yet I did not forget the statewide readership of the Think, Texas newsletter and column. In my absence, allow me to offer a March 28, 2020, column by Christina Stephens, a frequent contributor to the Caprock Chronicles, a historical series edited by Jack Becker, a librarian at Texas Tech University. It was originally p...

Chuck Lanehart Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about the lawsuit which brought racial diversity to the Lubbock City Council is the first of a two-part series by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and historian. When Gene Gaines’ wife died in the 1970s, he was told she must be buried in the segregated Black/Mexican-American sect...

Chuck Lanehart Editors Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, a recently retired Texas Tech Librarian, but he can still be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. This weeks article is by frequent contributor to this column, Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and historian. During the 1970s, police raided local theaters regularly, confiscated “dirty movies” and arrested owners and managers for displaying obscenity. The raids were front-page news and led to high-profile criminal trials. L...

Chuck Lanehart Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about Snyder’s legendary white buffalo is by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and historian. Before hide hunters began to penetrate the Great Plains in 1871, 60 million bison – known as buffalo – were thought to occupy the American West. Within a period of 18 years, just 500 ...

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Editors Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker a librarian at Texas Tech University. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Todays essay is by Marty Kuhlman, a history professor at WT.  Professor Kuhlman is a frequent contributor to this column. The bison is a symbol of the Wild West and a symbol of America. Yet the bison came close to extinction in the United States. In the 18th century, between 30 and 60 million bison roamed the American West. During ...

Parade for Prineville Marine celebrates his 99th birthday Prineville Marine Jack Becker, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, celebrated his 99th birthday in style on Saturday with a horn-honking drive-by parade of fellow veterans, friends and family. He called it "unbelievable" and "wonderful. ... I didnt think Im worth it, but everybody thinks so." Central Oregon / Local Videos / Top Stories / Videos / War-Military Noah Chast Related Articles