San Francisco And Texas: QUANAH, kwa'na, city, Texas, seat of Hardeman County, is 78 miles northwest of Wichita Falls, and at an altitude of 1,563 feet. It is served by the St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas, the Quanah, Acme and Pacific, and the Fort Worth and Denver railroads. It has good bus connections and an airport. In a region of wheat and dairy farms, and also of gypsum, it is a trading and manufacturing center for wheat and cotton, cottonseed oil, and plaster and gypsum products, including wallboards. Nearby are the Medicine Mound Indian relics, Lake Pauline, with hunting and fishing, and the site of a Texas-Oklahoma wolf hunt in September. Founded in 1886, the city was incorporated in 1887. Pop. 4,564.
RAYBURN, ra'bern, Sam(uel Talia-rro), American statesman: b. near Kingston, :nn.. Jan. 6, 1882; d. Bonham, Tex., Nov. 16, 61. When he was five years old, his family )ved from Tennessee to Texas. In 1903 he aduated with a B.S. from East Texas Normal illege (now East Texas State Teachers Col-re) in Commerce, and later studied law at the liversity of Texas in Austin, passing the Texas r in 1908 and taking up practice in Bonham. vo years before passing the bar he was elected the state House of Representatives from Bon-m, and served six years-the last two as the ungest speaker (age 29) of that House.
Species with few if any domesticated varieties are used for rootstocks or for garden and house-plants. They include V. candicans (the mustang grape of Oklahoma, Texas, and into Mexico), V. aestivalis (the winter grape of New York, to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, where it is called the summer grape), V. lincecitmi (the post-oak or turkey grape, mainly in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas), V. berlandieri (the little mountain grape of Texas and Mexico), V. monticola (the sweet mountain grape of Texas), V. cordifolia (the frost or sour winter grape from the Great Lakes to Florida), V. cinerea (the sweet winter or ashy grape of Illinois to Texas), V. champini (the adobeland or dog ridge grape of Texas), V. doaniana (the Texas Panhandle large grape, also in New Mexico), V. longii (the solonis, bush, or gulch grape of Texas to Colorado), V. rupes-tris (the sand, bush, sugar, or rock grape from the Rio Grande north to Pennsylvania), V. riparia (the riverside or river bank grape from Utah and Texas to Quebec), and V. girdiana and V. cali-farnica (from California and nearby regions).
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