Indigo Dying
Chapter One
Indigo, Texas, was founded in 1872 by Shelton Dobbs and named in honor of his daughter, Indigo Dobbs Crockett. The
prairie around Indigo, about fifty miles east of Austin, was suited to the growing of cotton, and the town soon became
a banking, ginning, and shipping center for area growers. But commerce began to decline when the boll weevil destroyed
the cotton, and the stores started closing during the Depression. As highways bypassed the community, its death warrant
was sealed. The most recent census shows that the population has dwindled to 27 hardy souls, all of whom swear that
they would rather die in Indigo than live anywhere else.
"Notes on Some Notable Texas Towns,"
The Enterprise, Pecan Springs, Texas
The man died fast and hard and in true Texas style, stepping into a shotgun blast that lifted his feet off the ground
and slammed him backward through the door he'd just opened, into the powdery dust of the street. Nobody actually saw
him die, but the report of his passing was loud enough to be heard by the amateur players in a makeshift theater across
the alley, just at the en ... read full excerpt from: Indigo Dying ebook
