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CHAPTER 24

Author: Funmilola
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Jan's grandfather had picked his homestead spot among the mountains of the Chihauhaun desert right after the civil war when the movement to end slavery started picking up momentum.

He picked this spot because it was advantageous for his business operations which were to catch escaping slaves, break them and return them to their owners.

He had men in groups and gangs, spread all over the desert up to Mexico. Covering El Paso down to Nuevo Leon. He also had men on the sea and the distant islands surrounding San Antonio. Everything between present-day Port Isabel and Port Authur was his territory.

In 1882 when he got wind of the possibility of a water stop being established close to his desert home, Jan's father quickly lay claims to a vast area of land close to the mouth of the desert and built the new Czarna Pantera where Jan now resided.

But when the town of Marfa was created in 1883, the spot picked for it was at least 2 hours drive away
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