A Far Cry From Elsie the Cow
Texan Gail Borden was an incredible inventor but a horrendous graphic designer.
Gail Borden flits in and out of early Texas history like a weird ghost. Here he is editing the Texas Telegraph and Register, the first newspaper in revolutionary Texas and the Republic. And the next thing you know he is laying out and mapping the raw towns of Houston and Galveston. He vanishes for 20 years, and all of a sudden, he’s invented condensed m…
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