"Food was scarce during the Great Depression. Rabbits weren't scarce. Barbed wire wasn't scarce. Folks would twist up a piece of wood in a length of barbed wire and run the wire down a rabbit hole. Twisting the barbed wire eventually ensnared a rabbit. Fried rabbit, rabbit stew, and rabbit on a spit kept folks going until things got better. Thus, Rabbit Twisters came to be. So many folks remembered the rabbit twisting that Rabbit Twister came to stand for a can-do, make-do, things-will-get-better attitude that is evident today in Coke County."
Back in the 1950's there was a baseball team from Robert Lee called the Coke County Rabbit Twisters. They played teams from other towns in the area thus making the term "Rabbit Twisters" well-known.
Coke County is home to cotton tail rabbits and black-tailed jack rabbits. The cotton tail is a true rabbit while the jack rabbits are hares. In the 1920's the ranchers and farmers held jack rabbit drives because of the huge population of jack rabbits which are voracious vegetarians."
-courtesy of the Coke County librarian
This cache is placed on private property with the permission of the owner.