Name/Title
“No Pistols Allowed In Abilene” [Cover]Description
Herman Maul hand painted cover of a notice warning “No Pistols Allowed In Abilene”. Postmarked on June 19, 1946 in Abilene, Texas, along the Western Trail and mailed to avid Texas philatelic collector Walter Jarrett in Abilene, Texas.Context
Before the coming of the railroad, the Abilene area had been sporadically inhabited by nomadic Indians and United States military personnel and later by buffalo hunters and ranchers.