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Teddy Jones on Borger’s Boomtown Corruption and the Origins of Far from Uncertain
Welcome to a new season of the award-winning Hill Country Authors Podcast, sponsored by Stoney Creek Publishing. In this podcast, Hill Country resident Tom Fox visits with authors who live in and write about the Texas Hill Country. Host Tom Fox welcomes back Teddy Jones to talk about her new book, Far from Uncertain: One Woman’s Life of Crime and Other Righteous Deeds.
Teddy’s book is inspired by a woman found near death in a ditch in Jones’s prior book, A Family of Good Women. She explains Borger’s 1926 oil boom, which led to lawlessness (gambling, illegal liquor, prostitution), entrenched…
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