EP. 133: The Van Horn Wells

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

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

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For centuries, Indians knew where to get water on the desolate terrain of what would become West Texas. One of those spots came to be known as the Van Horns Wells. Named for one of two possible military commanders, the wells watered men, horses, and eventually a railroad. With railroads come towns and the town of Van Horn has seen a lot. From horses to spaceships (?) Van Horn is an interesting Texas spot. Learn more in this latest episode of Wise About Texas.

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0:00.0	Howdy, and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas history podcast.
0:11.8	This is your host, Ken Wise.
0:13.1	Thank you very much for listening today.
0:15.8	Thank you also for the great feedback on the recent barbed wire episode, I've got some great stories
0:22.9	from listeners about their own encounters with the devil's rope and some interesting fence
0:28.3	building stories.
0:29.3	I could probably make a podcast out of a couple of the emails I got.
0:33.0	So hopefully you're not out having to pull wire in the cold winter weather that we've been having here in Texas.
0:40.9	Also wanted to remind listeners about the upcoming Texas State Historical Association meeting.
0:47.4	If you've been a listener for a while, you know I'm the current president of the Texas State Historical Association through March.
0:53.5	We're having our big annual meeting, the biggest meeting of Texas history enthusiasts,
1:01.0	academics, non-academics, people interested in genealogy, people interested in historical sites.
1:06.9	There's nothing like it.
1:07.9	We're going to have it in Houston, and it's going to be February 27th through
1:13.0	March 1st, and you can go to AM.TSha.com.t.jsha. Events, or you can go to the main website at
1:25.5	tshaonline.org, and you can register for the annual meeting there.
1:31.7	You can see all the programming that we're going to have, all the seminars, the various events.
1:38.0	We're going to have a huge gala.
1:39.8	We're going to have, for the first time in the history of the Association of the Texana auction that is going to be really spectacular of authentic Texas historical artifacts in
1:49.6	Texana and art and everything, you're not going to want to miss this.
1:53.2	So go check that out.
1:56.2	Well, today I want to talk a little bit about a place that is a good example of so many places in Texas
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