[RummyChick]

here is a col robert hall back in the day wearing beaded buckskin he made himself in the same area where Bezos grandfather took over the family ranch

https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/api/singleitem/image/p9020coll008/9973/default.jpg

He was quite a character. married the daughter of Colonel John Gladden King

[RummyChick]

http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/magazine/99/1227/cover2.html

“The family can trace its American roots to the turn of the 19th century, when a colorful, 6-ft. 4-in. character named Colonel Robert Hall moved to San Antonio, Texas, from his home in Tennessee. A sepia-toned photo of him is framed in Bezos’ living room and shows the man wearing a bizarre outfit stitched together from dozens of different kinds of animal pelts.”