“The enrollment of John Tarleton College has passed the 150 mark. This is beyond the expectation of the most sanguine at the time the school began.” Stephenville Empire

In October of 1836 George B. Erath became a lieutenant in the Texas Corps of Rangers (not the same as later Texas Rangers). Texas could not afford to pay them except in land and loot from raiding the Indians. Erath and his men lived off wild game and carried honey in deerskin bags.

Lucy Erath, (dictated to) The Memoirs of Major George B. Erath 1813-1891. Waco: The Heritage Society of Waco, 1956.