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Big Sandy,Texas-Overland Jack,Legless Man-Goat Wagon-Eccentric Traveler Postcard
$9.95
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mrhugo (91)
Printed Litho Postcard Unmailed. View of legless main in small wagon with five goats pulling it. Text reads something like this: THIS TEX. GOAT TEAM HAS BEEN OVER THE STATES OF Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas ... Read More
Printed Litho Postcard
Unmailed. View of legless main in small wagon with five goats pulling it. Text reads something like this: THIS TEX. GOAT TEAM HAS BEEN OVER THE STATES OF Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota. DISTANCE OF 25000 MILES SINCE 1909 THE TEAM WAS TRAINED BY OVERLAND JACK OF BIG SANDY TEX. OWNER AND DRIVER. THE HARNESS WAS MFG. AT BIG SANDY TEX. COSTING 30. DOLLARS. THE WAGON MADE IN CHICAGO COSTING 40.DOLLARS. IN A TEST THE GOAT TRAIN PULLED 2500 LBS. EACH GOAT IS FED 2 QT. OF GRAIN PER. DAY NO TROUBLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
see below for more info on Jack. Oddity, Walker, selling postcard.
Condition: Fair, corner and edge wear, soiling, no bends
Postmark: None, never mailed
Publisher: see scans
The watermark on the card: "Oldpostoffice Postcard Co" is only on the digital image and not on the actual card you will receive if you are the high bidder or choose to buy the card.
A large tombstone—with a goat’s head carved to the right and a revolver to the left—marks the resting place of John “Overland Jack” Rose in Chilton Cemetery in Big Sandy. Centered above his name, a small oval holds a picture of John, his wagon, and his goat team.
John, born in Virginia in 1888, fell beneath the wheels of a freight train and lost both of his legs at age nine. By means of hand-walking props that he made himself, he was able to remain ambulatory and complete his education. At age 20, he began traveling the country, driving a small wagon drawn by goats. He eventually settled in Big Sandy, built a home beside Everman Lake, and, refusing public aid or charity, supported himself and his goats by doing small repair jobs on watches, eyeglasses, guns, and antique clocks. Each year in early spring, “The Goat Man,” as townspeople affectionately called him, would set out from Big Sandy, making about 10 miles a day, stopping to sell postcards of himself for a dime, and doing repair work whenever he could find it. By the time automobiles made the roads too dangerous and ended his travels, he had toured 19 states and covered some 30,000 miles.
Overland Jack died in 1962. His personal property was auctioned, and his goat cart donated to Tyler’s Caldwell Zoo
Unmailed. View of legless main in small wagon with five goats pulling it. Text reads something like this: THIS TEX. GOAT TEAM HAS BEEN OVER THE STATES OF Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota. DISTANCE OF 25000 MILES SINCE 1909 THE TEAM WAS TRAINED BY OVERLAND JACK OF BIG SANDY TEX. OWNER AND DRIVER. THE HARNESS WAS MFG. AT BIG SANDY TEX. COSTING 30. DOLLARS. THE WAGON MADE IN CHICAGO COSTING 40.DOLLARS. IN A TEST THE GOAT TRAIN PULLED 2500 LBS. EACH GOAT IS FED 2 QT. OF GRAIN PER. DAY NO TROUBLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
see below for more info on Jack. Oddity, Walker, selling postcard.
Condition: Fair, corner and edge wear, soiling, no bends
Postmark: None, never mailed
Publisher: see scans
The watermark on the card: "Oldpostoffice Postcard Co" is only on the digital image and not on the actual card you will receive if you are the high bidder or choose to buy the card.
A large tombstone—with a goat’s head carved to the right and a revolver to the left—marks the resting place of John “Overland Jack” Rose in Chilton Cemetery in Big Sandy. Centered above his name, a small oval holds a picture of John, his wagon, and his goat team.
John, born in Virginia in 1888, fell beneath the wheels of a freight train and lost both of his legs at age nine. By means of hand-walking props that he made himself, he was able to remain ambulatory and complete his education. At age 20, he began traveling the country, driving a small wagon drawn by goats. He eventually settled in Big Sandy, built a home beside Everman Lake, and, refusing public aid or charity, supported himself and his goats by doing small repair jobs on watches, eyeglasses, guns, and antique clocks. Each year in early spring, “The Goat Man,” as townspeople affectionately called him, would set out from Big Sandy, making about 10 miles a day, stopping to sell postcards of himself for a dime, and doing repair work whenever he could find it. By the time automobiles made the roads too dangerous and ended his travels, he had toured 19 states and covered some 30,000 miles.
Overland Jack died in 1962. His personal property was auctioned, and his goat cart donated to Tyler’s Caldwell Zoo
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- mrhugo (91)
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- 09/28/2010
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- Nebraska, United States
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