Howdy and welcome to Wise about Texas, the Texas History Podcast.

I'm your host Ken Wise.

Thank you very much for tuning in today

for a little bit of Texas History.

This podcast is being recorded and released

in early September 2021. I hope that the kids, if any, have gotten back to

school. I know mine are up and running. It was a busy August and we got a lot of Texas history stuff going on here at

Wiesabout Texas World Headquarters. I've been doing a lot of speaking which I

enjoy very much. I'm teaching my class at Houston Baptist University again which I also enjoy very much and lots to keep us busy.

I wanted to tell you I'm going to have an article published in the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society journal

coming up at this fall and I'm going to turn that story into a three-part podcast, which is a little bit unusual but it's a big issue and it's an

interesting story and it is directly relevant to today's headlines to So stay tuned for that. I got the only

hint I'm going to give you is it's the late 1800s in northern Texas. But today I

wanted to talk about kind of a fun story that I discovered

I've known about it but I just recently read about it again and thought that we

ought to do an episode on this. This happened in

1909 and it involves the only natural lake in Texas, Caddo Lake, which I hope

everyone is visited if you have not visited it.

You need to go up there and see it in northeast Texas.

It's really beautiful, very interesting part of the state.

But in 1909, it became a center of commerce. So let's go back to

1909 in Caddo Lake and get wise about Texas. The kind of lake is, as I mentioned earlier in northeast Texas, it's in Harrison County and Marion counties and it's about 2,700

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