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More Horse-trading Stories (Part 2)

Posted on August 2, 2019 by bullersbackporch

Continued from yesterday’s excerpt from memoirs written by my grandfather, G.M.C. Massey, telling of a particular set of horse trades he made in the late 1800s. Then about 2 hours by sun I was sitting on the porch, and I … Continue reading →

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More Horse-trading Tales (Part 1)

Posted on August 1, 2019 by bullersbackporch

My grandfather, G.M.C. Massey, grew up in rural east Texas, and as a young man, he took great interest in buying, selling, and trading horses and mules. I’ve posted some of his horse-trading stories on this blog before. Here’s another … Continue reading →

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Horses, Colts & Mules — East Texas Trading circa early 1900’s

Posted on May 31, 2018 by bullersbackporch

Continuing our run of my Grandfather’s guest posts about horse trading, taken from his memoirs of rural life east Texas during the late 19th and early 20th Century. And at another time I had bought a man’s entire crop Cotton, … Continue reading →

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More of Granddad’s Horse Trading

Posted on May 24, 2018 by bullersbackporch

Recently, I shared a horse trading story my grandfather, G.M.C. Massey, included in his memoirs, one of many. He wrote in detailed anecdotes about some of his horse trading in rural east Texas circa  1890-1900 or so. Working from fragments … Continue reading →

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Granddad’s Bad Deal Horse Trade

Posted on May 3, 2018 by bullersbackporch

G.M.C. Massey, my grandfather and our “guest blogger” via his memoirs, wrote of  his early life in rural East Texas at the late 1800’s, a life that include farming and horses trading, subjects he wrote about often. Here he writes … Continue reading →

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