Littlefield Gateway Throw Pillow

When you visit the University of Texas campus it is hard to miss the Littlefield Gateway. The construction was completed in 1932 and while a major landmark on campus, many people don�t realize that it also has a somewhat entertaining story behind its construction and the feud between two regents.

It seems that two regents of the University of Texas had somewhat of a rivalry with one another, one regent George Littlefireld, served with the Confederacy; the other regent, George Brackenridge, was a Union sympathizer and war profiteer who smuggled cotton to the North. To add to their disdain for one another, they had the same middle name, both being named for George Washington - so you have George Washington Brackeridge and George Washington Littlefield.

The rivalry between these two is what legends are made of, two wealthy men on the same board who ultimately want the best for the system that they support, but still hate one another.

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