J frank norfleet biography of mahatma

Anyone who has ever been ripped off can admire a diminutive and otherwise unassuming Texan named J. Frank Norfleet, who was born during the last year of the Civil War and died four years after the JFK assassination.

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If Norfleet hadn't been gullible and trusting enough to get himself conned out of his considerable life savings in 1919 we probably wouldn't know much about him today. But he did get conned by some of the most cunning bunco men of the day, and his reaction to that is why his story survives and resonates almost a century later.

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Frank Norfleet was typical of many of the early day cattle ranchers in Texas in that he had an atypical work ethic and determination, even for those laborious times. He was born in Lampasas County in 1865 while his father was fighting Indians on the frontier with the Texas Rangers. When he was 14 he joined one of the last buffalo hunts on the Llano Estacado and once drove 5,000 cattle from Central Texas to the High J.

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