{"product_id":"tales-from-the-gainesville-daily-hesperian-a-chronicle-of-a-texas-frontier-town-paperback","title":"Tales from the Gainesville Daily Hesperian: A Chronicle of a Texas Frontier Town - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRon Melugin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter legendary sheriff Pat Ware was thrown from his horse on a very muddy Commerce Street, the \u003cem\u003eGainesville Daily Hesperian\u003c\/em\u003e observed that he \"had enough mud sticking to his wardrobe to start a land boom in the Panhandle.\" The \u003cem\u003eHesperian\u003c\/em\u003e had an eye for detail, down to the autumn leaf pen wiper Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott received as a wedding present and the raid on Fount Duston's watermelon patch. Ron Melugin has pored over thousands of articles from the newspaper's frontier era, piecing together advertisements for Botanic Blood Balm and a county clerk's train robbing spree. It is an account of bygone Gainesville so vivid that modern readers can almost see, hear and even (in the case of the 1894 privy ordinance) smell it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRon Melugin is professor emeritus at North Central Texas College in Gainesville, where he taught from 1965 through 2016. He holds a master of arts degree in history with a minor in government from Texas A\u0026amp;M University-Commerce. He is a member and former chairman of the Cooke County Historical Commission, a division of the Texas Historical Commission. His research has resulted in fifteen Official Texas Historical Markers. His previously published work is \u003cem\u003eHeroes, Scoundrels and Angels: Fairview Cemetery of Gainesville, Texas \u003c\/em\u003e(The History Press, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47519656313053,"sku":"9781467157407","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/XImKQFnEi19781467157407.webp?v=1772231806","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/tales-from-the-gainesville-daily-hesperian-a-chronicle-of-a-texas-frontier-town-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}