Sallie Reynolds Matthews, an early settler of the Albany area, wrote in her book Interwoven about frontier crime, "At that time the name of Texas, especially West Texas, was a synonym for lawlessness, desperados, and all that was wild and bad."

Albany Windshield History: Crime and Punishment, peers under the rock of sophistication into the seedier portions of Albany's early history!

Come along as we delve deeper into the stories of the underbelly of frontier society..

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