I still remember the day my father pointed to a huge Mesquite tree about a block from my house where I grew up.
He also told me that I was too young to understand those things but that I.
I was about eight years old.
He told me that the Texas Rangers had hung him.
I asked him who had done it.
He told me he ran home and brought his dad and a neighbor.
As we were walking towards town, he stopped and told me that when he was about twelve years old he found a man hanging from that particular tree.
I still remember the day my father pointed to a huge Mesquite tree about a block from my house where I grew up