Traces of Texas reader Regina Crutcher sent in this outstanding 1908 photo of students outside their one-room school in Draw, Texas. Draw is in the Texas Panhandle in Lynn County, southeast of Tahoka and northeast of O'Donnell. Draw was originally named Mooar's Draw, named for J. Wright Mooar, the famous buffalo hunter. Draw, being located in a draw, naturally caught water used by ranchers herding cattle to the railroads or up north. The Draw Methodist Church was founded in 1907. Church is still held in the church. It has never closed, even during the Great Depression and the drought. Draw is now the home of one of  the largest wind turbine farms in the world.

Can you imagine how hard life must have been for these kids? Out there on the great plains, northers blowing through in the winter, hotter than Hades in the summer, dust storms blowing through all the time? And you KNOW that schoolhouse didn't have much in the way of insulation. And yet they stayed on.