Frontier

Lavaca County and the Raw Frontier

By Murray Montgomery
     Staff WriterSeveral years ago, I received a complimentary copy of a new book, Raw Frontier (Volume Two), written by Keith Guthrie. His book is sort of an assortment of historical facts about the area that made up Green DeWitt's Colony during the birth of Texas.

Unearthing the story of Dugout Homes

By Murray Montgomery I had been thinking about doing a story on dugout homes for a long time – they were one choice of housing available to the impoverished pioneers of this country. The more research that I did, my respect for our ancestors grew even more; as if that was possible.