Located on the high divide in far western Gillespie County, Harper, Texas is out there on the edge; connected to the German Hill Country in some ways and separated from it in others. Harper is famous for its healthy climate. A whimsical reporter once compared Harper to a similar town in Oklahoma where, “the town graveyard was a measly little patch in which only 3 lots had been taken and the occupants of those were 3 doctors who had tried to make a living there and starved to death because ...