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JOYCE ROACH / ROBERT FLYNN
sure it was Dad's fault. "Why didn't you stop him?" she screamed. "I
couldn't catch him," Dad said.
JOYCE: See there! It has to do with towns built on a square again.
If you had a square in Chillicothe, you wouldn't have to run through
the screen door. You could have run around the square. There would
have been plenty of folks to stop you. You could have got help. Maybe
somebody would have counseled you, guided you, violated you.
Maybe the Ku Klux Klan would have been in the midst of a burning,
and you would have had a light to see by. You wouldn't have had to
run plumb through a screen door. You would have been calm when
you got home. You would have known that nothing in the cemetery
was as death defying as life on the Jacksboro Square.
BOB: In Chillicothe the most death defying thing we had was
Algebra. The only people who took Algebra were girls who were
interested in comparative shopping. Chillicothe is a farming com-
munity, and farming is as death defying as anybody wants to get.
JOYCE: Chillicothe was just a hick farming town strung along the
highway between rows of cotton or something. Jacksboro was a
ranching town. Ranchers are superior to farmers. Naturally, I think
it has to do with horses. Farmers walk behind horses, and when you
spend your days behind a plow looking at a horse's rump and trying
to keep from stepping in something, it affects the way you perceive
the world. But when you get to ride the horses, people look up to you.
They have to even if you're four feet eight. I grew up riding horses and
thinking I was taller than I really was. Some kids rode their horses to
school. They tied them and let them graze on the playground. They
took those animals home foot sore and limping because all of us had
run out and ridden them at recess, jumped them over the see-saws,
or run them in a figure eight around two merry-go-rounds. That kind
of training will improve the quickness in both horses and children.
Jim Bob Arnold used to get his horses in shape for the round-up by
letting his two boys bring the animals to school for two weeks before
he gathered his steers off the range. When he did get his herd
bunched, he let the Ag boys and us girls too take their pick to show
at the Fort Worth Stock Show. The judges at Fort Worth had to look
quick at the Jacksboro entries because the animals were so wild that
it took three to get them in the ring, three more to get them out of
the ring, and three to run them down when they broke for the<68>
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Abernethy, Francis Edward. The Bounty of Texas, book, 1990; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38873/m1/80/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.