Letter from T.W. Thomas to Lizzie Johnson in which Thomas chides Lizzie for her last letter, in response to the six he sent previously. He also discusses a fever in Big Bend.

Newspaper clippings of an article from the Dallas Morning News. The article is titled "Garrison's 'Informant' Plot Hatching Related." The third article is titled "Russo Says He Heard of Oswald in Telecast." The article discusses recent developments made in the Garrison investigation.

Newspaper clippings of two articles from the Dallas Morning News. The first article is titled "Assassination Probe: Big Little Question Unanswered," while the second article is titled "Russo Says He Heard of Oswald in Telecast." All articles discuss recent developments made in the Garrison investigation.

Newspaper clippings of three articles which were published in the Dallas Morning News. The first article is titled "Assassination Probe: Big Little Question Unanswered," while the second article is titled "Garrison's 'Informant' Plot Hatching Related." The third article is titled "Russo Says He Heard of Oswald in Telecast." The articles discuss recent developments made in the Garrison investigation.

Louisiana’s Neutral Strip, an area of pine forests, squats between the Calcasieu and Sabine Rivers on the border of East Texas. Originally a lawless buffer zone between Spain and the United States, its hardy residents formed tight-knit communities for protection and developed a reliance on self, kin, and neighbor. In the early 1900s, the timber boom sliced through the forests and disrupted these dense communities. Mill towns sprang up, and the promise of money lured land speculators, timber workers, unionists, and a host of other characters, such as the outlaw Leather Britches Smith. That moment continues to shape the place’s cultural consciousness, and people today fashion a lore connected to this time. In a fascinating exploration of the region, Keagan LeJeune unveils the legend of Leather Britches, paralleling the stages of the outlaw’s life to the Neutral Strip’s formation. LeJeune retells each stage of Smith’s life: his notorious past, his audacious deeds of robbery and even generosity, his rumored connection to a local union strike—the Grabow War—significant in the annals of labor history, and his eventual death. As the outlaw’s life vividly unfolds, Always for the Underdog also reveals the area’s history and cultural landscape. Often using the particulars of …