EP 44: Josiah’s Vision
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Josiah Wilbarger was one of the earliest Anglo settlers of Texas. He also settled way outside the safe boundaries of the frontier. He chose a league of land in the hostile territory of the Comancheria, near present-day Bastrop. He eventually gained a neighbor in Reuben Hornsby but things were still very, very dangerous. One day he and others were attacked by Comanches. Josiah took a musket ball to the neck and was paralyzed. Unable to move or speak, but still conscious, he felt himself being scalped by an Indian. Still alive, he dragged himself to a tree where he had a vision that saved his life. But was it a vision, or a visit from the spirit world? Learn more of this ghostly tale 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. |
| 0:12.8 | Thank you very much for tuning into this podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | And I appreciate your interest in Texas history. |
| 0:19.5 | We are getting back in the groove down here |
| 0:21.7 | at World Headquarters of Wies |
| 0:23.0 | about Texas after Hurricane Harvey and Irma hit Florida right after that. |
| 0:29.9 | And we had Jose out in the Atlantic and we had Hurricane Maria making a few moves. |
| 0:36.1 | And it's been a very, very active hurricane season. |
| 0:39.2 | Our prayers, of course, go out to the people in the islands and Puerto Rico has just been devastated. |
| 0:45.0 | So we need to all do what we can to help out there because as I mentioned in the Hurricane |
| 0:50.6 | Harvey bonus episode last week. That's what Texans do. We need to |
| 0:56.3 | offer our special prayers and help for the folks down in the Rockport area, the |
| 1:01.0 | mid-coast, Port-O-R Aransas, they're still suffering a lot, a lot of destruction |
| 1:06.1 | down there. |
| 1:07.1 | I've gotten some more pictures from listeners and we need to do what we can to help those folks |
| 1:11.6 | out. I did read a funny article quoting |
| 1:14.2 | some of the portar ransis residents that |
| 1:16.8 | uh... that they prided themselves on being |
| 1:19.5 | a little uh... |
| 1:20.8 | a little different and uh... were going to come back as quirky as ever so |
| 1:26.1 | shout out to Port of Ransis we know that you'll make it. I want to thank you also |
| 1:30.3 | for being one of the over 127,000 listeners of this podcast. We're up to |
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