Texas Terrain
Due to many great western films like John Ford’s The Searchers and John Wayne’s Hondo, many people think of Texas as being only desert terrain, which is where those films were shot. But livestock need grass and water to survive and many areas of Texas grow lush and green with lots of rain..
Native bluebonnets grow wild amid plentiful grass during a year with ample rain.
Finding the Nueces Strip
Southwest Texas between the Nueces and the Rio Grande rivers is a strip of land that was largely uncontested during the civil war. By the late 1860’s a variety of people displaced by the war were drawn to the land without law.