Ep 48: Texans You Should Know-Crazy Ben Dolliver the Pirate

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

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

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Crazy Ben Dolliver was said to be touched. Sporting a 6 inch scar from an old sword fight, Crazy Ben circulated around Galveston in the 19th century barefoot, shirtless, and mostly drunk. He camped on the beach and fished for his sustenance. But Crazy Ben always paid for his drinks with Spanish Doubloons. Every now and then he’d sail away from the island and return with more Spanish gold. Where did the gold come from? Everyone knew Crazy Ben had served as one of Jean Lafitte’s crew as a pirate. Did he know the location of some treasure? Nobody figured it out, though they tried and tried. Then one day a ship arrived from New Orleans and Ben left….with some cargo. Hear a true pirate tale 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.
0:12.6	This is your host, Ken Wise,
0:14.0	and I want to thank you for listening today,
0:16.0	and thank you for your interest in Texas History.
0:18.9	Well, since the last two episodes,
0:20.4	we did an episode on the Chili Queens of San Antonio and the bonus episode of
0:24.2	second helping of Chile. We've had a couple of pretty severe cold snaps in the
0:27.8	Lone Star State. This podcast is being released on January the 15th, 2018 and we're fixing to have another
0:35.1	one tomorrow here at World Headquarters of Wies about Texas so that's great
0:39.7	chili weather I hope you were inspired by those episodes and got a chance to enjoy a big pot of
0:44.7	chili which of course I know you enjoyed with no beans in it. I want to thank everybody
0:50.0	for the feedback on those episodes. We had a lot of fun with it. We got some good
0:53.0	chili recipes circulating because of it and hopefully inspired some of you to take
0:57.6	your best recipe and enter some of those cookoffs we discussed. Well I want to
1:01.6	talk today. I got the idea for today's episode from some
1:06.1	information that was communicated by listener Cheryl Shaw who was chairman of the
1:11.4	Chambers County Historical Commission.
1:13.0	Chambers County is just in southeast Texas, the county seat is Anawak.
1:18.0	It is the site of some of the earliest Texas history.
1:21.0	The Anawak disturbances come to mind as a result of the
1:24.6	passing of the turtle by you resolutions and we've talked about that in some
1:28.2	earlier episodes and I want to tell you that Cheryl and her colleagues on the
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