Farmer-rancher. His reminiscences about life in Denton, Texas, 1910-30; business activities around the city square and county courthouse; city streetcar service; identification of old Oak Street residences; Cascade Plunge swimming pool; forced removal of African Americans from ”Quakertown” section of Denton to the east side of the railroad tracks in 1920s; early automobiles in Denton; Denton during World War I; medical practices; childhood leisure time activities; Prohibition in Denton; Great Depression; farming practices in the 1920s and 1930s; contrasts between banking practices of the 1920s and 1930s with those of the 1980s; comments on the oil industry.