JOHN GRAVES:
"While doing some research on your region, I came across the September/October 1998
issue of your magazine containing Part Two of Glenn Hadeler's "Terror in
the Hills" about the Mason County Hoodoo War by far the best thing I've come across
on that subject. I would very much like to get hold ofPart One if possible, and since
I liked the other articles too I want a year's subscription
A.C. GREENE
"I appreciate your sending me Enchanted Rock Magazine and
have enjoyed every issue that I have seen...I think Gary Brown’s Cold Trail Hounds in
your magazine was the best Texas tall tale I have read since Bill Brett at his best
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 Cowboy
Colors & Cowboy Bars:
by L. Kelly Down
You fellows is way wrong in thinking like
Hollywood that all the trail drive hands was white folks. Girls you better put a lid on
that talk. Way before Texas was in the Union cattle was worked by Indians —like the
Wacos —the Latins, the Mexicans, and in South and East Texas, by African-Americans.
Nat Love. Born in
slavery in 1854, Nat left his home in Davidson County, Tennessee at the age of fifteen and
made his way west where he became a chowhand with an outfit on the Palo Duro River in the
Texas Panhandle. As a cowhand he drove cattle from Mexico to the Dakotas.
Eventually, Nat laid claim to the title "Deadwood Dick" the hero of a series of
popular dime novels in the late 1800s. Although there were several contenders to the
honor, only Nat made his claim in print with his autobiography, The Life and
Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick".
Illustration of Nat Love by Ira Kennedy.
 The Bloody
Hand Prints of Alice Todd Part 1 of 2 Parts
by Lemon Squeezer Published
in San Saba, Texas 1900
"Away back in the early sixties
when a Redskin lurked in every brushy hollow and when men and women went horseback to
church, often times fifteen miles away, when everybody knew everybody else, and when
everyone was a true neighbor -- it was then our story began."
Save the image (left) as wallpaper: click
on the image and follow instructions. (From the private collection of Ira Kennedy.)
 Legacy in Stone: A Primer on
Texas Arrowheads
by Ira Kennedy
The human history of the Americas has its roots deep in the soil of
Texas. Lacking a written record it is not a history in the traditional sense of the word,
but it is a cronological record none-the-less. This documentation exists in the form
of inobtrusive stone artifacts lost, buried, or abandoned by their creators.
Although the most abundant of these flint tools are scrapers, handaxes and other
utilitarian artifacts, the "arrowheads" and "bird points" are the most
commonly understood and sought after. Illustraion by Ira Kennedy.
 December 2021: The Mayan
Calendar
by Ira Kennedy
"According to Mayan chronology, the present age started on 12 August
3114 BC and is to end on 22 December 2012. At that time the Earth as we know it is again
to be destroyed by catastrophic earthquakes." Reading that it’s easy for
folks to fall into the notion that "The End is at Hand." But wait. Before
we start hunkering down lets take a look backward and review exactly what did happen
around 3,000 BC. Save the image (left) as
wallpaper: click on the image and follow instructions. (Created with landscape
imaging software..)
 Clicxlan:
Further Conversations with Harry
A journey to the middle of nowhere leads to the center of the
universe.
Part 2 of 2 Parts by Cork Morris
"However nebulous it might be, a paved road offers certain security
to the weary traveler. It tells us that someone, real and concrete, (with a
full-time job) has gone this way before to build the road and remove it's dangers.
As one views a paved road from a hill-top, and watches it wend it's way through the hills
and valleys, one can almost see a Picassoish flow to the line...
THE
RIVER OF LOST IDENTITY: Phonetics Foiled the Real Name of Llano
River by Dale Fry: Originally the name of the Llano River was not
"Llano" at all. Spanish explorers who discovered it called it "Rio de
los Chanas -- River of the Chanas-- after the Indians who inhabited its banks, a simple
and logica means by which to identify the stream.
 Retreat to Victory: THE
BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
by Steve Goodson
As Houston’s small army
trundled down the road toward Harrisburg, Santa Anna and his column of 750 men invaded San
Felipe on the east bank of the Brazos River. His artillery bombarded the west bank
deceiving the small band of Texicans under Captain Moseley Baker into thinking he would
attempt to cross the river there. Having learned of the newly formed Texican government
retreat from Washington-on-the-Brazos to Harrisburg, Santa Anna determined to catch the
revolutionary ringleaders.
 The Runaway Scrape
by Steve Goodson
With the fall of the Alamo, the Texicans and their families set out on a retreat before
the advance of Santa Anna'a army. William Travis's pleas for reinforcements from the
Alamo did not go unheeded. Texican volunteers answered the call and began to converge on
Gonzales. Lieutenant Colonel James C. Neill who had commanded the garrison at San Antonio,
left the Alamo on February 11, 1836, to visit his family and help from the Texican
government at Washington-on-the-Brazos.
 The Electra Monoplane
by David Morrow
About 1911 in the town of Electra my maternal grandfather, Robert B.
“Bob” Richardson, built and flew what was probably north Texas’ first
airplane. He was born in Philadelphia in 1895 and came with his family from Liber, Oo the
newly opened town of Electra in 1907. Created out of the Waggoner Ranch, Elhio, tectra was
then a frontier community full of pioneer spirit.
The Legend of the Bluebonnet
as told by Cork Morris
"She sat by herself, watching the dancers. In her lap was a doll made from
buckskin. A warrior doll. The eyes, nose and mouth were painted on with the juice of herbs
and berries. It wore beaded leggings and a belt of polished bone. On its head were
brilliant blue feathers from the jay that flitted among the trees in summer. She loved her
doll very much."
 A
Clean Well-Lighted Place
3D-Photos by Ira Kennedy
A little-known technique called "stereoscopic free viewing" allows two
dimensional photography to step into the 3-D world. It takes very little practice and the
rewards are well worth the effort. The details are on the page..
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GARY P. NUNN
"I have discovered a gem of a publication that I want to share with you called Enchanted
Rock Magazine. This little jewel is chocked full of Texas history, lore and culture,
mined from letters, newspapers and first hand accounts of early Texas settlers. Published
by Ira Kennedy, I can highly recommend it! BUY IT!" MARCYS HUFF
Editor, True West Magazine
"Enchanted Rock is truly a fine publication. I don’t often brag on things
from Texas, (Okie pride, ya know) but your mag is doing a great job of keeping the West
alive. Plus it looks great on the newsstand next to True West. Don’t squat
with your spurs on."
GERALD McLEOD
Austin Chronicle
"Ira Kennedy and Enchanted Rock are two defining symbols of the Texas
Hill Country. The pink granite mount's rugged beauth has endured for centuries,
while Kennedy left a career in the city to pursue a dream in the hills like the
pioneer's"
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