Renowned Texas Journalist Shares Family History Harness Makers Dream

Kotz tells KUT’s David Brown, host of the forthcoming daily news show Texas Standard, the story of how  Nathan Kallison escaped the Cossacks in Russia to the ghettos of Chicago where he became a harness maker.”The automobile was starting to roll on the streets of Chicago,” Kotz says. “[Nathan Kallison] had vision, and he saw if there were harnesses and saddles that were still going to be used any place, Texas was the best place to go.”

And Texas is where Nathan Kallison went. Listen to their interview in the Soundcloud player above or on the KUT.org web site: