A South Texas rancher lost his son in a street fight in 1884, and his revenge was to pay a railroad to go around the town.
Helena was the seat of Karnes County, sitting on the old Chihuahua Road, and it had a reputation.
The local specialty was a knife fight with the two men's left wrists tied together, which tells you most of what you need to know about the place.
In 1884, Emmett Butler, son of the cattleman William Butler, was shot and killed there. Nobody was ever convicted.
Butler was one of the largest landowners in the county, and when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway came surveying, he made an offer: free right of way across his land, on the condition that the tracks miss Helena entirely.
The railroad took the deal. A new town called Karnes City grew up at the depot, and in 1894 it took the county seat.
Helena emptied out within a generation.
The stores closed, the families left, and the square went back to grass and prickly pear. •
The 1873 courthouse is still standing though, restored and open as a museum, which makes Helena one of the few ghost towns in Texas where you can walk up the courthouse steps and go inside.
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The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: Billy Bob's Texas, the iconic dance hall and "world's largest honkytonk" in Fort Worth, was given its name by Darrell K. Royal, legendary former coach of the Texas Longhorns football team. It's true.
Per Billy Bob Barnett, the founder of Billy Bob's, the original plan was to call it "Jerry Max's Texas," after Jerry Max Lane, a local performer. But when Jerry Max and Billy Bob met in the Stockyards to finalize everything and make the new name legal, Jerry Max brought some lawyers who had all kinds of paperwork they wanted Billy Bob to fill out and sign. “You got to do this, you got to do that, you got to sign this ...” Billy Bob said. “Coach Royal is there because he’s real close to Jerry Max and close with me. We’re sitting there talking. And he says to me, ‘Well, if you called it Billy Bob's Texas, you wouldn't need all these lawyers.’”
And that is why Billy Bob's is called Billy Bob's and not Jerry Max's.
Photo of Billy Bob's by Michael Barera.
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