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Looking Back At: Early Days of Texas Polo
Two teams played some of the first polo games in Texas on the Balcones Ranch near Boerne. Captain William Michael Glynn Turquand, a retired English military officer, led a contingent of English ex-patriots to San Antonio in 1876. Because San Antonio was the western terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the city was a popular destination for wealthy Englishmen looking for adventure in the American Southwest. Not long after his arrival in San Antonio, Captain Turquand bought land near ...
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