Brown County Living Vol 1 2021

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1. Q uanah Parker G reat Chief of the Kwahadi band of the Comanche Nation.

2. Molly Armstrong First female optometrist in the State of Texas.

3. Colonel Jack Bradley

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WII flying ace, was in the first W daylight raid over Berlin.

rown County Museum of History has captured the past so those coming after would learn and remember the great men and women who fought Comanche Indians for a piece of the plains, Texas Rangers who captured and killed outlaws who roamed the Llano Estacado, and the brave men and women who fought in WWI and WWII.

4. K atherine Anne Porter

Brownwood has earned its bragging rights. Vice President and Exhibit Coordinator, Beverly Norris, points with pride to pictures on the front of the museum of people from the area who distinguished themselves in some way.

6. Sheriff Charles Bell

1 965 recipient of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Ship of Fools. The book was also made into a movie.

5. H .O. Kelly n old cowboy who acquired national A fame for his primitive paintings.

R emembered for maintaining law and order. He was shot and killed in

1898 by a drunken blacksmith.

H O MET O W N L I V I NG A T ITS B EST

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