Alex Sweet's Texas: The Lighter Side of Lone Star HistoryAlexander Edwin Sweet (1841 1901) is Texas's own Sifter, whose humorous columns appeared in the Galveston Daily News in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In his wickedly funny, tongue in cheek sketches, readers learned of an astonishing variety of frontier phenomena, some familiar, others downright odd. For example, there was the typical nineteenth century custom of New Year's Day receptions for bachelor guests only, with refreshments consisting largely