Interview with Thelma R. Fletcher, 1982.

Salado, Texas Growing up on a huge ranch in the Big Bend region -- the last true frontier -- Thelma Rawls Fletcher remembers her father was a friend of both Pancho Villa and Judge Roy Bean. And she remembers fearing nothing aside from rattle snakes. Like other West Texas ranch girls, she went to boarding school in San Antonio with classmates from prominent Mexican and Indian Territory families