Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a Librarian Emeritus from Texas Tech University. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about Olive Dixon’s descriptions of her husband’s adventures is by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and award-winning history writer.

“There is something beyond description that clutches a man’s heart and imagination in the Plains country. Whether it is the long sweep of the horizon, with its suggestion of infinity, touching upon melancholy, or that wide-arching expanse of sky, glittering by night and glorious by day, may not be determined, yet no man is ever quite his former self after he has felt deeply the bigness, the silence and the mystery of that region.”—Olive King Dixon.

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