Mike Cox's Texas Magazine: Texian Scrapbook: Old Clips

Lawyer vs. Lawyer

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:35:18 GMT

A Duel Prevented -- On Wednesday evening last the preliminaries for a duel were entered into between two lawyers of our town, A.J. McKean and Samuel Lampkin, esquires. The weapons selected were double barrel shotguns charged with buckshot at the distance 10 paces. Both gentlemen had started for the ground but fortunately for the honor of our town and th…

Shoot You Dead William

Mike Cox — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:27:02 GMT

The old imbecile who publishes the dish-rag Journal down the street is out this week in a scare head article relating to us. It is in relation to that little affair at Yancey’s one night last week. The dish-rag says we played the part of a coward, and advises that we be treated with contempt.

Let us explain. We dropped into Yancey’s gambling house to pic…

A Texas Editor's Christmas Thoughts

Mike Cox — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 18:54:04 GMT

“It is now Christmas night while we pen this article. The members [of the Republic of Texas Congress] have returned to their homes. We ourselves are in the full and undisturbed possession of our civil and political rights- we witness the same valuable blessing in the possession of all others. We feel and believe that within the last twelve months we hav…