William Cowper Brann was an American journalist also known as Brann the Iconoclast. During his life, he gained a reputation as a "brilliant though vitriolic editorialist." He defended lynching Black m
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Brann at a funeral parlor
Brann's tombstone in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas
Colt Single Action Army revolver owned by Judge Gerald and lent to W.C. Brann, who used it in his street duel with Davis, Redmen Museum, Waco Texas
Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a U.S. census estimated
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…paper quickly failed, and Brann went back to working for other Texas newspapers, the San Antonio Express and the Houston Post. In 1894, Brann moved to Waco, Texas, to become an editor with the Waco Daily News. By February 1895, he had decided to attempt to revive the Iconoclast, and this time, the paper was…
From left to right, top to bottom: Downtown, McLennan County Courthouse, Waco Suspension Bridge, Dr. Pepper Museum, Waco Mammoth National Monument, Baylor University, Waco Hippodrome, Cameron Park, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, and Austin Avenue in Downtown
The Dr Pepper Museum is one of Waco's tourist attractions.
Washington Avenue Bridge (postcard, c. 1908), built in 1902, it was the longest single-span steel bridge in the world.