In January of 1879, the Chidister Line stagecoach, possibility because of a drunken driver, wrecked between Bluff Dale and Granbury. No one was injured, but it was a cold, snowy night and the passengers had to walk the last four miles to Bluff Dale. The Chidister Overland Stage Line was discontinued in 1881.

H. Grady Perry, Grand Ol’ Erath: The Sage of a Texas West Cross Timbers County, Stephenville, Texas, 1974; and Henry Fooshe, Historical articles appearing in the Stephenville Empire in the 1880s.