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Looking Back At: Colorful Judge Cooley

The Texas Hill Country has always attracted mavericks, nonconformists and eccentrics. Its history is filled with more characters than the Chinese alphabet and more drama than The Young and the Restless. Judge A. O. Cooley felt the attraction of the Hill Country the first time he saw it. He rode into Gillespie County one day to do some prospecting, lost his horse in Fredericksburg, stopped to hunt him and never left town. Judge Cooley was born in New York in 1826.

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