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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 girlfriends. Buddy Holly met Peggy Sue Gerron in 1956 when she was a sophomore at Lubbock High School...

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 ways to be lonely." There is little doubt West Texas culture – and Roy’s determination to overcom...

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 and a group the Spanish called Llanero Apaches. The Army and Apaches alike hoped for peace, but th...

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 firemen in the LFD were among the first firefighters in this region of the United States to be trained i...

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 published in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.  The first Texas native wildflower that became ingrained...