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Rambling Boy

Renaming West Texas Counties and the Burden of Southern History

By Marfa Public Radio

Published August 28, 2017 at 5:19 PM CDT

lonn-taylor-web-292x300 — Lonn Taylor, the Rambling Boy

On this episode of The Rambling Boy, Lonn dives into the history of the names of Texas counties and rethinks the naming system altogether. Would West Texas be better off with an "Agave County" instead of one named after President of the Confederate States Jefferson Davis?