Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Sleepy Armstrong made Hollywood westerns
Edgar Armstrong, age 19, at left, with brother W.B. Armstrong, age 24, at right.
The Armstrong surname is familiar in the Harrington area. There were probably three W.B. Armstrongs in their family charts, but there was only one "Sleepy," whose given name was Edgar Alan Armstrong. Sleepy was a son of George Albert 'Doc' Armstrong (1857-1945) and his wife Mary Eliza Goodwin (1860-1941). George's father was a large farm owner in Texas where he also owned a store and hotel. At the end of the Civil War, G.A. was just seven years of age. In later years he could tell tales of days he spent driving cattle on the Chisholm Trail and of being in Baxter Springs, Kansas the day the Dal...
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