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Diatrict 17. Tnrds 334
Sudan, Texas. tog. 1
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mrs. Arthur P. Dueean en l her husband, the lnte Arthur P. Dueoan, wore the
first residents of Littlefield, Texas, and Are. Dueean vas the first woman to call
Dittlefi 14 her home. Mr. Dueean and her two children joined M. Dueean on the
plains in the fall of 1912 online from pollee, Texas. Some of her ftlieWs rredicted
that she would not stay over nteht, but r—nording to Mrs. Dugean, when she tot one
whiff of the breese that Slew over the oratrie and took one kook at the sky, she
knew she would be content to call this new country her home. Mrs. Dueean said. she
pitched her tent where the oTees •.'-fs the oreenest, sneakily, of the srot the tleeoon
biome now oocuries4
Their first home was a one room houne with e lean to that the cowboys mewl&
in -Pro,1 the south ca -r of the Yellow House ranch. They scoured it with lye and
painted it a "sky blue rtnke° and there the family started its rioneer days. These
early citizens of this little torn never know who their next melts would be 'Iecouse
there was ranch tr-velling in every direction lo these days and man, Intere-tine
peonle were entertained in the Durmln hone.
Mrs. Duos.an, unnn arririn to tic.) ur hr h -me 11 this country, teed to now
which cov: the were to nilk. Ina7ine her surrrise when her husband informed her
thnt the cows were much to wild to milk and that they would have to mend Ivak to
Dallas for their own milk cow. Mr-. itirsVIA oinsidered this a oeculiar circumm
stance to enconnter in a cow country.
The new houoe that the Dursane nein was finished July 44 1913. one neTee
'wiled from Lubbock all of the limber thpi rent into the house. Re used a waoon
and 8 mulls. The eon cedar thrt nor borders the putemn rrw,-rty, was oron-ht tn
from one or the fellow Rouse cooing and Mrs. pugean trimmed_ it and set it out herself.
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mrs. Arthur P. Duooan Austin, Tm7e.i.