CUT AND SHOOT TEXAS

In the early 1900s, trouble was brewing in a small, unnamed community a little north of Houston. Different versions of a local legend say that the townspeople were fighting over either the new steeple for the towns church; the matter of which denominations could use the building (and when); or the land claims of church members. Whatever the reason, the townspeople had gathered near the church and were on the brink of violence. A boy at the scene supposedly declared to his family that he was going to take up a tactical position and cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes. The matter was eventually taken before the court. When the judge asked one witness where the confrontation had taken place, he didnt know what to call it, since the town didnt have a name. He told the judge, I suppose you could call it the place where they had the cutting and shooting scrape, and the name stuck.