Ep 43: Asa Borger and his Boomtown

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

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

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🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Asa Borger was a town builder with an eye for opportunity and a nose for the Texas oil fields. He came to the panhandle in 1926 and made millions establishing the boomtown of Borger. But the thousands of residents weren’t all of the best sort. Drinking, gambling, prostitution and violence were rampant. “Booger Town,” as it came to be known needed law enforcement. Unfortunately, the towns chief law enforcement officer as well as the mayor encouraged the crime and profited handsomely. Even the famous Texas Rangers Frank Hamer and Tom Hickman couldn’t control it. After the District Attorney was murdered because he wasn’t corrupt, the law and order Governor Dan Moody brought in the National Guard and declared martial law. Even after the dust settled there was one more shooting…find out the rest in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I want to thank you for tuning in today
0:14.0	for another story from Texas's great history.
0:18.0	This episode is being released in August of 2017
0:22.0	and man is it hot down here in Texas but you know in August
0:25.9	when is it not hot in Texas I hope that your summer has gone well I know the kids
0:31.0	are not ready to get back to school, but as a parent of a middle schooler and a late elementary schooler,
0:37.0	some of your parents may be ready for the kids to go back to school.
0:41.0	It's been a busy summer in the Wies about Texas World
0:44.2	Headquarters. I've got some great ideas for some new episodes and I'm going to
0:49.6	ramp back up on the production schedule. It's been a busy summer. We've had a couple of trips. I talked
0:54.5	about the road trip that the family took. A 2,100 mile road trip and that sort of put the hammer
1:02.0	on the production schedule but I went ahead and
1:05.6	2,100 wasn't enough so I took another 2,300 mile road trip driving from
1:11.0	California to Texas and
1:14.0	may have run a little side Aaron in Colorado but the part of
1:17.2	Colorado that we drove through was part of the original
1:20.6	Republic of Texas so I occasionally still claim that area for Texas.
1:25.4	Sure are a lot of Texans up there anyway. Well we came back from that road trip
1:30.4	through Amarillo and of course did a very Texan thing and stopped at the big
1:35.3	Texan steak ranch and had a meal and as we were headed from Amarillo back home
1:41.3	we passed by a town that has an interesting history and got to
1:45.8	talking about it in the car and I thought I might talk about today the guy that
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