Ep. 55: A Surly Bartender
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Fredericksburg Texas has a very interesting history. Created during the massive German immigration to Texas in the middle 1800’s, Fredericksburg was not intended to be the city it soon became. A treaty with the Comanche Indians and the California gold rush made Fredericksburg a prosperous place to set up a store. John Hunter did just that. Hunter supplied his patrons with everything they need, including whiskey. He was also the county clerk. But Hunter’s temper got the better of him, his store, and the entire early history of Fredericksburg. Learn more 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. This is your host Ken Wise, and I want to thank you for tuning in for a little Texas history. |
| 0:17.0 | I want to begin by saying a special thanks to everyone who has left a review on iTunes. |
| 0:22.0 | Those reviews, the star Ratings, really help move |
| 0:26.0 | the podcast up, the ratings chart, and help other history lovers find out a little more about |
| 0:32.1 | Texas. I was talking the other day at a conference to a network CEO, a podcast network |
| 0:37.9 | CEO from Los Angeles and he was very impressed with the number of reviews |
| 0:42.4 | that was about Texas has so if you haven't |
| 0:45.2 | left one yet please click on ratings and reviews on the show's iTunes page and hit your |
| 0:50.6 | star rating I hope that it's a five. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, summertime in Texas, this episode is being released July 2018. |
| 0:58.0 | Summertime means road trips, so I hope you're taking a little Texas history with you |
| 1:02.0 | and you'll tell your friends about |
| 1:03.7 | it as they drive around this great state. |
| 1:06.6 | Now the listeners of this podcast know how much I love the Texas Hill Country and I've |
| 1:10.7 | discussed in a couple of episodes my roots in the mid-1800s German immigration to Texas. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm also on a Texas Supreme Court |
| 1:23.8 | records for the preservation of historic court records. |
| 1:25.1 | Historic court records are critically important |
| 1:27.2 | because you can really learn a lot about the history of a |
| 1:30.1 | community if you look at the court records. Now when you think about |
| 1:34.0 | court records you probably think about crimes and that's certainly part of it. But |
| 1:37.8 | also we have lots of civil court records that reveal lots of information about titles, sometimes they adjudicate titles, |
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