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Friday, October 20, 2017
Bigfoot Wallace County
Bigfoot Wallace County is just next door to Waylon County, and like many other places in my book, it is named after a historical figure. William "Bigfoot" Wallace was a famous Texas Ranger whose exploits were chronicled in The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, which was published in 1871. Wallace, who was a member of the Mier Expedition and a survivor the Black Bean Incident, lived somewhere between legend and the truth. To illustrate that point, it should be noted that the great folklorist J. Frank Dobie wrote about the Ranger in "Bigfoot Wallace and the Hickory Nuts," and Wallace's story is the basis of Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk. There is, of course, no Bigfoot Wallace County in Texas, so I decided to give us one. I hope y'all can visit there one day.
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