Personal code pitted farmer against lawman
By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher MT PLEASANT, TEXAS—When the lawmen were the outlaws, they were hard to beat. But that’s how
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East Texas History
Archives provide a history of hospitality, Hotel Stephens and fine dining at the corner of West 1st and Madison
Above picture, on August 28, 1982 when Lynch Harper shot this, Billy Craig sold Fina Gas refined at Mt. Pleasant’s
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Center Point
By Hudson Old Eastern Camp County, 1948 – It wasn’t that business at Albert Hamilton’s syrup mill wasn’t what it
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What makes your heart go out ? and the reason behind Harold Logan’s mission in his home town
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Reprinted from the East Texas Journal April 1995 Edition Among the mysteries of paradise
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Historian Traces Elvis to Mt. Pleasant performance in December, 1954
Reissued story from East Texas Journal December, 2015. In a 1996 Journal interview tracked down in 2006 by a dogged
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1854 news account describes family as ‘passionate, domineering and dangerous’
HAGANSPORT – As the crow flies, this is the closest town to the place just downstream of the confluence of
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Horsemen Gather at cavalryman’s family’s reunion
By Hudson old Journal publisher He was Jose Wales and John Wayne rolled into one, said Roger Mauzey, a descendent
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Radio patriarch’s ghost echoes through broadcast
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Turn on, tune in, drop by. It’s not too late to get your name on
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King family found momentary respite from war in 19th century Titus County
John Henry King remembered the soldiers passing by his home at Boggy Creek in eastern Titus County on their way
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P. D. Thornton, Sr
Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with P. D. Thornton, Sr. in 1979. I
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