Jeff Roche

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654 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

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He's a gifted writer.

He thinks.

He's interested in history.

And he's a student in just an amazing history department.

And he just digs right in.

He's one of the founding members of the Panhandle Plains Historical Society.

And when he graduates from college, he goes to work for them as a field secretary.

And this is in the early sort of days of historical museums and things like.

So he's just driving around West Texas in this tricked out Model T Ford.

And he's going and he's interviewing old timers.

all about what it was like to settle the region.

And he's interviewing cowboys about what it was like to cowboy back in the day.

And he tries to sell memberships to the Panhandle Plains Historical Society.

He's very, very good at it.

And he's just collecting stuff.

Whatever people want to donate, he just throws it in the back of the Model T. And when it gets full, he drives back to Canyon and unloads.

So he does this for a few years, and he's so good at it that he gets poached by the University of Texas.

And they say, we want you to do this for us.

We want you to collect for us.

And so he does.

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