NOLAN COUNTY NOTABLES

LEW JENKINS

(World Champion Lightweight Boxer)

“SLINGIN’ SAMMY BAUGH

(Football Hero/Rancher)

CLYDE (BULLDOG) TURNER

(Football Hero)

PAN ZARETA

(Internationally renowned race horse owned by the Newmans)

DAN PATCH

(Horse owned by the Trammells---also set several national records)

BRIGADIER GENERAL AUSTIN DAVIS

(Military Achievements)

MAJOR GENERAL DUDLEY FAVER

(Military Achievements)

BRIGADIER GENERAL IRBY JARVIS

(Military Achievements)

HARLEY SADLER

(Vaudeville)

ROY C. CRANE

(Comic strips of Captain Easy & Wash Tubbs)

LOUIS BROOKS, SR.

(World Champion Bronc Rider)

BUSTER WELCH

(World Champion Cutting Horse Rider)

S.D. MYERS

(Renowned Saddle Maker)

MAURINE WHARTON RIDWAY

(Author of Out of a Whirlwind)

JOHN HENDRIX

(Author of If I Can Do It Horseback)

DOROTHY SCARBROUGH

(Author of The Wind)

MERRIT MAUZEY

(Nationally Renowned Lithographic Artist & Author)

WESTERN DIAMOND RATTLESNAKE

(Full International Attention through the World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup, held annually)

THE FLYING FITZGERALDS

(Trapeze Artists)

MOSE NEWMAN

(Champion Skeet Shooter)

SWEETWATER MUSTANGS

(1985 Texas Class 4A State Football Champions)

MONDEL ROGERS

(Painter)

BARRY ARTHUR

(Painter)

MIKE MALONEY

(Sculptor)