A little over a year ago, I found something extraordinary in the archives of the Museum of the West Texas Frontier in Stamford. It was a promotional pamphlet dating to about 1910 with the innocuous title “Swenson Avenue Addition.” It was ostensibly intended to market newly-platted lots in an area north of Stamford’s downtown. In reality, it was one of the most extraordinary pieces of local…
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