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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 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 section of the City of Lubbock Cemetery. Offended by the city’s racial discrimination, Gaines – Lubb...

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. Lubbock was the setting for the first obscenity jury trial in the United States involving the celebra...

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 bison survived perhaps the greatest human slaughter of animals in history. One such kill – that of...

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker a librarian at Texas Tech University. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today's 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 the 1870s, hunters in search of hides, meat and glory rushed to the West, which led to the near d...

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 didn't think I'm worth it, but everybody thinks so." Central Oregon / Local Videos / Top Stories / Videos / War-Military Noah Chast Related Articles