Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host, Ken Wise. Thank you very much for

tuning in for some Texas history today. Very excited today. I'm recording and

releasing this podcast during the first strong coal front of the season.

That always makes Texans happy, particularly in southern Texas,

because it means that hurricane season is over and we will be enjoying some cooler temperatures

and of course that means we need to cook some chili and remember no beans.

Some of you all may have read in the newspapers that I am now the president of the Texas State Historical

Association.

I was the first vice president and scheduled to take over as President next March

2024. But due to some litigation that the Association was involved in, my presidency has started early so that has delayed my

production schedules significantly but we're back on it so sorry for the

delay. The podcast episodes today I want to talk about a person that is

existed in Texas during a time where history often merged with gossip, rumor, or outright fiction to become legend rather than history.

And sometimes this story, or the story of this person

is a good opportunity for everybody

to think about the difference between a literal recitation of verifiable facts as history

and how those facts might be confused and how you might verify them or not and whether

legends are something that are useful in your interpretation of history.

Plus, it's just a darn interesting story.

So let's go back to before Texas Independence

and get wise about Texas.

Subject of today's story is a lady popularly known as Sally Skull, which I think is just a fantastic name.

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