TX BIOS:  Mrs. Arthur P. Duggan, Littlefield, TX
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   White [?]
   
   Roy, Marjorie. P. W.
   
   District 17. Words 334
   
   Lamb County
   
   Sudan, Texas.
   
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   Pg. 1 FIRST RESIDENTS
   
   Mrs. Arthur P. Duggan and her husband, the late Arthur P. Duggan, were
   the first residents of Littlefield, Texas, and Mrs. Duggan was the
   first woman to call Littlefield her home. Mrs. Duggan and her two
   children joined Mr. Duggan on the plains in the fall of 1912 coming
   from Dallas, Texas. Some of her friends predicted that she would not
   stay over night, but according to Mrs. Duggan, when she got one whiff
   of the breeze that blew over the prairie and took one look at the sky,
   she knew she would be content to call this new country her home. Mrs.
   Duggan said she pitched her tent where the grass was the greenest,
   speaking of the spot the Duggan home now occupies.
   
   Their first home was a one room house with a lean to that the cowboys
   moved in from the south camp, of the Yellow House ranch. They scoured
   it with lye and painted it a "sky blue pink," and there the family
   started its pioneer days. These early citizens of this little town
   never knew who their next guests would be because there was much
   travelling in every direction in those days and many interesting
   people were entertained in the Duggan home.
   
   Mrs. Duggan, upon arriving to take up her home in this country, wanted
   to know which cow they were to milk. Imagine her surprise when her
   husband informed her that the cows were much to wild to milk and that
   they would have to send back to Dallas for their own milk cow. Mrs.
   Duggan considered this a peculiar circumstance to encounter in a cow
   country.
   
   The new house that the Duggans built was finished July 4, 1913. One
   [negro?] hauled from Lubbock all of the lumber that went into the
   house. He used a wagon and 8 mules. The salt cedar that now borders
   the Duggan property, was brought in from one of the Yellow House camps
   and Mrs. Duggan trimmed it and set it out herself. BIBLIOGRAPHY
   
   Mrs. Arthur P. Duggan ............. Austin, Texas.
   
     NOTE: c.12 - 2/11/41 Tex.

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