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Hempstead is also known for its early 20th-century rough-and-tumble character. The town was informally called Six Shooter Junction. [10] The town has grown in recent years because of its relative closeness to Houston along U.S. Highway 290. The current economy is based on county government, shipping, and a small but growing industrial base.
Kenedy is a city in Karnes County, Texas, United States, named for Mifflin Kenedy, [4] who bought 400,000 acres (1,600 km 2) and wanted to develop a new town that would carry his name. The population was 3,473 at the 2020 census, [5] up from 3,296 at the 2010 census.
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Sixshooter, Texas is an unincorporated area in southeastern Pecos County, Texas. It gets its name from the Sixshooter Draw, a tributary of the Monument Draw . Sixshooter has a telephone exchange in Area code 432 .
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Joseph Lee Bowman [1] (April 12, 1925 – June 29, 2009) was an American marksman called "The Straight Shooter", considered to have been a guardian of Texas and Western frontier culture. He was also an Eagle Scout , Army soldier, and bootmaker .
Flowers sit in a shopping cart outside the door of the closed Walmart in Monkey Junction Sunday. A store employee was shot and killed Saturday evening while trying to stop a shoplifting incident.
As investigators continue to search for a motive behind the attempted assassination, they are scrutinizing Crooks’ actions in the days and hours before the shooting.