Reason for this was to avoid the almost inpenetrateble "Monte Grande" . The large post oak and blackjack forest that bisects the state from deep south Texas almost to the Red River.
You mean the Cross Timbers? It runs clear up here. I used to live in it, now I live close to the eastern edge of it. The Cross Timbers is some beautiful country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Timbers Pretty much the same thing! But here they are thick as all dickens.
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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