Another neat photo find..........

Discussion in 'Cactus Cafe' started by LousianaHorn, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. LousianaHorn

    LousianaHorn Kabong

    from the Traces of Texas facebook page..........

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    Captain Richard King, founder of the King Ranch (seated) and his business partner Mifflin Kenedy. The exploits of King have been recounted several times on this page. Mifflin Kenedy (June 8, 1818 – March 14, 1895) was a South Texas businessman who was not only a partner in ranching and steamboating with Richard King but also the namesake of Kenedy County and the city of Kenedy in Karnes County. In 1852, the 33-year-old Kenedy married the Roman Catholic Petra Vela de Vidal (1825-1885), the young widow of Col. Luis Vidal of Ciudad Mier, Mexico, who had six children from her previous marriage. Kenedy adopted all of Petra's children and then the couple had six children together. One of those kids, James W. "Spike" Kennedy (1855-1884), operated a ranch in the Texas Panhandle with a crew and two thousand head of cattle that had been provided by his father. In 1878, Spike Kenedy inadvertently shot and killed Dora Hand, a popular dance hall singer and actress in Dodge City, Kansas, to which he had come after a cattle drive. He escaped conviction, some say, after Mifflin Kenedy paid at least $25,000 to town founder Robert M. Wright to obtain an acquittal based on "lack of evidence." Crazy times. This is the only picture that I know of that shows these two legendary men together, but there may be others.
     
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  2. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    I kind of expected King to be wearing a Cowboy Hat... but in those days one probably dressed up and took off the hat for a photo like this.
     

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