Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > The Lighter Side
ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
Meryl:
Poteet, Texas
nakymaton:
Ten Sleep, Wyoming
- wyomen and shakestheground think this is the town that Annie Proulx based the fictional Signal on. The real Brokenback Mountain is near it.
"The range war which erupted between cattlemen and sheepherders at the turn of the century came to a head near Ten Sleep with the Spring Creek raid in 1909. Masked cattlemen surrounded a sheep camp, killing three sheepherders and about 5000 sheep. The resulting trial and convictions brought an end to open hostilities between the cattle and sheep ranchers."
Fran:
Post, Texas
-- Founded in 1907 by breakfast cereal magnate Charles William Post. His vision drew him to one of the most beautiful locations in west Texas -- the area where the head waters of both arms of the Brazos River join to outline the scenic caprock escarpment of the Llano Estacado. Here C. W. Post carved a county out of nature's provisions which provided a home for cattlemen, plentiful oil and bountiful cotton....
moremojo:
Tecoman, Mexico
--situated in the State (estado) of Colima, one of the smallest states of the Mexican nation. This is the hometown of one of my dearest friends, with whom sadly I have lost touch.
memento:
Newsome, Texas
NEWSOME, TEXAS. Newsome is on the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway and State Highway 11, ten miles southwest of Pittsburg in western Camp County. Settlement of the area began in the 1860s; Newsome grew up around a railroad switch station established in 1887 and was named in honor of John Newsome, an early settler. A post office was established there in 1902, with John M. Newsome as postmaster. By 1914 the town had a bank, a picture show, a hotel, a garage with two car salesmen, a newspaper, the Newsome Argus, a number of stores, and a population estimated at 450. The community, located in an agricultural and lumbering area, served as a shipping and supply point for area lumbermills and farmers. A cyclone in April 1919 killed at least eight people, and the town apparently never recovered. By 1925 its population had fallen to 165. It had 200 residents and ten rated businesses in 1931 and a population of 100 in 1968. The post office was closed in 1972, and from that year to 1990 the population of Newsome was reported as 100. In 1988 the town had no rated businesses.
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