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Mary Taylor Newcomb, 93, Beeen retired in San Antonio, was born there in in a crude barn of palm logs built by her father and older brothers. My brother Lee had brought this car.

Next year, for the first time, it will be held in Mangum, Oklahoma. The plaza now becomes vacant soon after sundown. Here their enjoy an Easter egg hunt in a plowed field near Chamal, Mexico.

Frasier and his family lived in large palm thatch house fir Chamal, Mexico. Once a year, the Chamal descendants have a reunion, usually in San Antonio.

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Senate subcommittee. Mexican cowboys After the revolution had finally spent itself, some Americans returned to Chamal to start over. Victorja believes the Blalock Colony story could have turned out differently. The local school now uses the original school building of the colonists, for a cafeteria downstairs and auditorium upstairs.

Chamal had no school teacher then, and eventually, her father sent her to Natalia, with some other children, to be educated among other reasons.

Turner is one of a handful of Americans that remain in the area. Conditions in Chamal steadily worsened and in Augustthe U. The Americans cleared thousands of acres for cultivation and pasture, had herds of cattle, two schools, a large general store, a non-denominational church, and even, briefly, a local newspaper. He olng in McAllen and was so sweet.

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Over the next year, two more trains would follow. Next year, for the first time, it will be held in Mangum, Oklahoma. Senate subcommittee. Some returned, but ultimately the colony failed.

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Jaguars and mountain lions preyed on calves and other animals, belonging to the early American colonists in Mexico. Ramos worked for many of the original colonist when he was a young man.

He was partners in cattle with my grandfather. That same year, the long, bloody Mexican Revolution was erupting.

His son, Grady, 80, now lives in Chamal. Townsend in a letter published in the Mangum Sun. Marines had occupied Veracruz, matters again became critical. Tony Turner, 88, who was born in Chamal inworked a career in San Antonio as a school teacher and administrator, and then returned in Photographs of that early era show a confident, successful people. Marines had occupied Veracruz, matters again became critical.

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That's where all the Americans traded. Robbed by cartels On a recent visit to Chamal, the town of wide streets and several hundred households seemed strangely quiet. At first Chamal was spared, but by earlyanti-American sentiment, thefts of livestock and acts of aggression threatened the colonists. Snell, who raises crops and cattle, has no plans on leaving.

Her son also has wonderful memories of the Mexican cowboys and ranch life in Chamal, during an era before electricity and telephones. Victooria 47 1of47Tony Turner, whose grandfather George F.

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He was partners in cattle with my grandfather. Turner arrived in Chamal inchecks on his cattle under a century old "Orejon" tree, on May 2, Newcomb and his wife Liz are writing a book about Chamal. The colony is mostly abandoned now, victim of a decline that began with violent upheavals in Mexico less than a decade after Chamal was founded.

One closed with a bit of braggadocio. Photo: Blalock Mexico Colony Project 14of47Cecil Thompson and his hunting dogs show off a jaguar they killed in the nearby mountains early in the 20th century. Soon after the Mexican Revolution erupted and many of the American colonists were driven out by violence and theft.

They were told they would be shot at dawn. The last two times, they were stopped and robbed on the other side of Ciudad Victoria. Over the decades, San Antonio would emerge as a mainland base for many of them. Snell, who raises crops and cattle, has no plans on leaving.

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Years ago, we Besn lots of oranges, now we have just a few cattle. Newcomb later married and stayed in the United States, though for most of her life, she and later her son Rick went back to Chamal during the summer and on Christmas vacations. And everyone here knows how the long story of the Blalock Mexico Colony will soon end. The American colonist that set up in Chamal in vicforia their home out of the same materials.

Soon after the Mexican Revolution erupted and many of the American colonists were driven out by violence and theft.

It was common for peddlers to pass through Chamal using donkeys to haul their wares including coffee, clothes and shoes. Jaguars and mountain lions preyed on calves and other animals, belonging to the Ciudwd American colonists in Mexico.

Years ago, we had lots of oranges, now we have just a few cattle. I got along with all of them.