Ep. 114: Winging it in Big Bend

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

Texan, Places & Travel, Education, Texas, Cowboy, History, Society & Culture, Culture, Jacinto, Texans, San

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the 1920s, U.S. military aviation was in its early stages. New uses for air power were discovered frequently. The new flying machines would allow military and civilian authorities to patrol dangerous, remote areas more effectively. Few areas in the U.S. were more remote, or more dangerous, than the Mexican border in far west Texas. Revolution, banditry and violence were commonplace. The military needed an airfield from which to operate, but where? Elmo and Ada Johnson had the the perfect spot, and one of the most unique and popular airfields in U.S. history, Johnson's Ranch, was born. Learn more about the time when airplanes came to the Big Bend in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome to Wise about Texas, your award winning Texas History Podcast, I'm your host, Ken Wise. Thanks so much for joining me for a little bit of Texas History.
0:18.0	This episode is being recorded and released in the summer of 2022 and we are all experiencing that very charming Texas heat.
0:28.0	The other thing that we've got going on though is drought.
0:32.0	So I want everybody listening to this episode to
0:34.7	throw up a prayer for some good rain especially for our farmers and ranchers who
0:38.7	are such a huge part of the Texas
0:44.2	podcast. We love our agricultural community, so hang in there. I'm praying for rain too.
0:49.4	I wanted to mention that the Wise About Texas YouTube channel is up. I was behind the times
0:56.2	as I normally am on most things with respect to YouTube and was informed by a well-known
1:04.5	podcast or friend of mine actually from based in California
1:08.5	that you need to get a YouTube channel up
1:11.1	and just put your podcast episodes up on it.
1:13.2	So I don't think about listening to podcast through YouTube, but so far, tens of thousands of people
1:19.3	do, apparently.
1:20.4	So, and that might increase the reach of the Texas history programming which is of course the reason we're doing this so
1:29.5	Check out wise about Texas on YouTube. I'm also going to put up there some videos. I, when I drive around, I have
1:36.4	bribed my kids into filming me at various historic sites. Only for the videos are only, you know know 45 seconds to a minute and a half
1:44.8	or so just a little flash of a historical site or two or this historical marker or a
1:51.8	little story.
1:52.6	So I'm going to put those up there
1:54.6	and we'll come up with some other things.
1:56.7	I know there's an extended video I'm going to post pretty soon
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