| Sumario: | 27 James M. Smallwood, I The Feud that Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas i (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008). The following gentlemen were the first to set up businesses in Cuero and to them the present Cuero owes a deep debt of gratitude because, like the saying goes, "as the Old sang, so the Young pipe."[73] Graph Click for larger view View full resolution H. Runge & Co in Cuero, Texas. 74 Waltersdorf discusses the Eckhardt store in Yorktown at length and holds up Wilhelm Eckhardt as a model of German enterprise and business acumen in Texas, but H. Runge & Co (later Kaufman & Runge) was a much larger enterprise and Heinrich (Henry) Runge (1816-73), the owner, was easily the most prominent and successful Texas German businessman of the nineteenth century. The town of Runge, in fact, had coalesced around a mercantile store and post office established by business associates of Henry Runge (1816-73), a successful and farsighted Texas German businessman.[2] When Waltersdorf arrived in Texas, not only was he reunited with his parents, whom he had not seen in twelve years, but he also met for the first time his new brothers and sisters, who had been born in Texas.
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