How do you? Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise and I am glad that you decided to join me today as we journey through Texas history.

A lot has happened since our last episode.

The last episode was an interview with professional historian Dr Jody Edward Ginn and it went very well.

We had a lot of great feedback about that episode.

We're going to be doing some more interviews in the future and I hope that you'll let me know who you'd like to hear from.

I thought, I got a lot of feedback about how interesting it was to hear a professional talk about how

pros approach history and it certainly was interesting to learn from Dr.

Yin. I hope that the audio experiment that was that interview

met your ears okay. I'm always looking for feedback on the audio if it's

loud enough if it's clear enough and I hope

you'll provide that either on the website at wise about texas.com or email me at host

at wise about texas well today's episode, I entitled the Greer County Land Grab

and left that question mark in there on purpose.

Now, I don't want this episode to start a war with Oklahoma or anything, but it is an interesting story

of a boundary dispute that goes all the way back to before the Republic of Texas, and I want to say

a special thanks to my good friend and

colleague Judge Mark Davidson. Judge Davidson is a great Texas historian and

he originally told me this story and provided it as an idea for the podcast and I think it's a great idea.

So we're going to talk about this story and there's really three parts.

One part goes back to 1819.

One part talks about the organization of a county in

Texas and how that happened in the 1800s and one part is litigation. So let's go back to 1819 and get wise about Texas. Now the

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