Jack of Harts

Texas spent the first three decades of the Twentieth Century expanding their economy in an onrushing boom that seemingly nothing could stop. Eastern cotton plantations generated a strong cash crop, northern ranchers fed beef to the nation, western oil wells produced the fuel that moved people and supplies throughout America, and southern ports imported and exported goods from and to all over the world. The great cities were some of America’s most cosmopolitan population centers on rich rivers and harbors, and a man could ride a hundred miles without seeing a single person in the vast expanses of the western and northern plains. Texas was an economic titan that many thought would never fall.