According to Marx, Bates's son, Grandfather Bledsoe was an expert with a team of horses and with a handgun. He won third prize for using a handgun in the 1906 Texas State Fair. My father added when he told me that, "and there were a lot of gun slingers in Texas at that time." He was good, real good with a gun. Our Grandfather was also an "expert with a team of horses". My father used exactly those words. But, he also didn't learn to drive an automobile until after he was forty. He never mastered the automobile and it finally overmatched him. He was a beekeeper, and one day he had been out tending his hives. When he came to drive back, his auto turned over on him. The car caught on fire and he was burned to death in the accident. That was in 1947. He was a man who stood on the very edge of the American frontier. He was poor, hardworking, and he was almost entirely self educated. My Father told me that he was the smartest man he ever knew, and he felt he could only stand on his shoulders and perhaps see a little farther than he did.
According to Marx, Bates's son, Grandfather Bledsoe was an expert with a team of horses and with a handgun. He won third prize for using a handgun in the 1906 Texas State Fair. My father added when he told me that, "and there were a lot of gun slingers in Texas at that time." He was good, real good with a gun. Our Grandfather was also an "expert with a team of horses". My father used exactly those words. But, he also didn't learn to drive an automobile until after he was forty. He never mastered the automobile and it finally overmatched him. He was a beekeeper, and one day he had been out tending his hives. When he came to drive back, his auto turned over on him. The car caught on fire and he was burned to death in the accident. That was in 1947. He was a man who stood on the very edge of the American frontier. He was poor, hardworking, and he was almost entirely self educated. My Father told me that he was the smartest man he ever knew, and he felt he could only stand on his shoulders and perhaps see a little farther than he did.
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