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James Franklin Comstock (25 February 1911, Richwood, West Virginia - 22 May 1996, Huntington, West Virginia) was a West Virginia writer, newspaper publisher and humorist. He founded the weekly West Virginia Hillbilly (1957-1980) and compiled a definitive 51-volume encyclopedia of West Virginia history and culture.
William Joseph McCorkle (born 1966 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American businessman, former real estate guru and former owner of William McCorkle Seminars.In the 1990s he and his wife Chantal created a number of late-night television infomercials, selling materials which purported to teach people how to make money buying foreclosed real estate properties.
The Waggoner Ranch is a historic ranch located 13 miles south of Vernon, Texas, in north Texas near the Red River and Oklahoma border. Founded in 1852 by Daniel Waggoner, [2] it is the largest ranch within one fence in the United States. [3] [4] The land has been used to raise crops, beef cattle, and horses and to produce oil.
Terra Vance, a distant cousin of vice presidential candidate JD Vance, points a to photo at the Hatfield McCoy museum in Logan County, West Virginia. (Roger May / For The Times)
Even Vance expressed admiration for our trajectory, writing in "Hillbilly Elegy" that white Appalachians wallow in pessimism, unlike Latino immigrants, “many of whom suffer unthinkable poverty.”
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), [2] nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, " Walking the Floor Over You " (1941), marked the rise of the honky-tonk style of music.
(The Center Square) – As the California business exodus continues, the latest to leave is Realtor.com, relocating its corporate headquarters from Santa Clara, Calif., to Austin, Texas. Realtor ...
The first known instances of "hillbilly" in print were in The Railroad Trainmen's Journal (vol. ix, July 1892), [2] an 1899 photograph of men and women in West Virginia labeled "Camp Hillbilly", [3] and a 1900 New York Journal article containing the definition: "a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the ...