Hondo Crouch is a legend among Texas legends. Primarily known as the founder of Luckenbach, the little settlement popularized through Waylon Jennings’s and Willie Nelson’s popular song, it is difficult to determine where the man ends and the myth begins. Before all of this, he was known as “The Swimming Cowboy.”
What most know about Crouch is that he was a rancher, a writer, and humorist. He bought Luckenbach as a means of preserving a particular way of life that was near and dear to his heart. Upset with commercialization in Fredericksburg that was spreading throughout Gillespie County, crouch established Luckenbach as a humorous protest. You can read more about it here.
What many don’t know about Hondo is that he was a world-class swimmer when he was a younger man.
John Russell Crouch, All-American