in a Pecan Shell The town’s probable namesake was early settler
R. W. "Mustang" Moore. The honor was not made for donating land,
starting a school or for being a railroad official. Mr. Moore
was found in the doorway of his cabin – dying from wounds
received in an 1861 Indian raid. A second (and more often
repeated) story claims that a stranger detrained in the town and
uttered that he could take "no more" of Texas. He found the
nearest crossbeam that could support his weight and hanged
himself. This amusing but dubious story doesn’t provide the name
the town was operating under when the stranger arrived. It would
seem that if this story was true, we’d be writing about Nomore,
Texas. But it’s a colorful story. The next event in Moore’s
timeline came in 1870 when August and Louisa Obets transmigrated
from Henri Castro’s settlement. The Obets became Moore’s first
“permanent” settlers (which means they were not killed by
Indians). After living in a sod-covered house, this pioneering
couple built a frame house in