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Source: Houston Chronicle
Historians in the News
4-22-12

Professor teaches real-life Texas history lesson

BUFFALO GAP, Texas (AP) — A frontier hunter once watched for three days as an immense buffalo herd streamed through this gap in the Callahan Divide.

McMurry University professor Don Frazier can drive home that history lesson to students in a classroom at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village.

But putting them behind the sights of a Sharps .45-70 rifle and pulling the trigger on a metal buffalo target at Fort Chadbourne takes history a few shots beyond imagination....

Read entire article at Houston Chronicle