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Texas Travel • Texas History
October 2006 Issue
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TEXAS RAILROADS

  • Tracks by Billy B. Smith 10-1-06
    "I have always loved railroads, both the trains and tracks... One railroad line in particular has been for me an umbilical cord that has connected me to my roots and my life. I have lived close to this line for most of my life. It always reminds me of where I've been and where I could have gone."
    Photos courtesy Justin Parson
  • AVIATION
    The Houston Air Terminal
  • The 1940 Houston Air Terminal Museum by John Troesser 10-1-06
  • High Over Houston, Captain A. J. High: A Positive Altitude by John Troesser 10-1-06
  • How Houston's 1940 Airport Helped Me Figure Out How to Keep Our Homes and Attics Cooler by Ken Rudine 10-1-06
  • PRESERVATION
  • The Rufus F. Hardin High School and the Rufus F. Hardin Elementary School 10-1-06
    Photos courtesy Jason Grant

  • Dallas Through the Lens of C. DeWaun Simmons 10-12-06
  • Rooms with a Past
  • The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells 10-24-06
  • ART
  • Donna Howell-Sickles 10-1-06
    Cowgirl Art


    MONUMENTS
  • Texas Panhandle Mystery Monument 10-1-06
  • TEXAS TOWNS - Search 1464 Texas Towns >

  • Jacksonville, Texas
    Love's Look Out 10-24-06
    Photo courtesy C. DeWaun Simmons

  • Spur Photos courtesy Bob Worley 10-18-06
  • Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson: 10-4-06
  • Coolidge | Coleman
  • Carmine | Crockett
  • Rogers 10-13-06
  • Andrews | Ben Hur
  • Bloomburg
  • Blossom | Blooming Grove
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    TEXAS GHOST TOWNS - Search 374 Ghost Towns >

  • Soash Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-14-06
  • Oak Hill and Oak Hill Cemetery 10-6-06
    A Bastrop County "scraped earth" cemetery
  • 3 Live Oak County Ghost Towns:
  • Gussettville 10-6-06
  • Dinero 10-6-06
  • Lagarto 9-25-06


    Hill Country Ghost Towns: 10-14-06
  • Fly
  • Noxville
  • Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson: 10-10-06
  • Bronco
  • Girvin
  • Bomarton 10-2-06
  • Cuthbert 10-6-06
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    TEXAS FEATURES • TEXAS TRIPS

    Halloween Parade Float c. 1910, Columbus, Texas
    Photo courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library
    GHOSTS & SUPERSTITIONS
  • Stampede Mesa by C. F. Eckhardt
    " Stampede Mesa was-and may still be-one of the most thoroughly haunted places in Texas."
  • Flight from ghosts helps stomp some berry juice by W. T. Block Jr. 10-16-06
    "As children, Broomtail and I had grown up, listening to our sisters’ tales on Halloween nights, about the ghosts that wandered around the cemetery. And to augment their stories, a river man named Old Rob, who worked on our farm, had bottomless pits full of ghost stories of his own..."
  • Flowers For Sarah Herndon by Clay Coppedge 10-11-06
    There's no such place as Donahoe anymore. There is Donahoe Road and Donahoe Creek, but the rest of the once thriving community has been relegated to memory, legend and...
  • Haunted Hill by Clay Coppedge 10-5-06
    "Joyce Woods Cox, a local historian based in Moody, was told when she was a child that at night you could hear the rattling of chains."
  • The Undead by Maggie Van Ostrand 10-10-06
    Not only is Halloween right around the October corner, but this week has a Friday the 13th in it. If that's not enough to get your hackles raised, it's time to reconsider the Bridey Murphy Syndrome.
  • Friday the 13th by Maggie Van Ostrand 10-4-06
    "...Is the fear of Friday the 13th based on the fear of the number thirteen itself?... Who were the three scariest guys to be born on Friday the 13th?..."
  • Some old-time superstitions prevail by Delbert Trew 10-3-06
    When I began asking friends about this subject I learned many early-day superstitions are alive and well today.
  • TRIPS
  • Bell County's Sunshine Road
    Photos courtesy Genevieve E. Shockley 10-15-06
    Three towns, one ghost town, four cemeteries, creeks and bridges ...


    CEMETERIES
  • Sunshine Cemetery 10-9-06
  • Reed Family Cemetery 10-13-06
    Photos courtesy Genevieve Shockley
  • HISTORY
    W. T. Block Jr. "Cannonball's Tales"
    • Some Notes on the Civil War Jayhawkers of Confederate Louisiana 10-3-06
    "Very quickly thereafter, the Civil War became known as "a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight." While the Confederate government championed the cause of States Rights, many poor Southerners soon viewed it as a war to preserve the institution of slavery, and hence the way of life of the wealthy planter class that slavery permitted to flourish. It is believed that only one out of each twenty Confederate soldiers actually owned slaves..."
    TEXAS ARCHITECTURE • IMAGES > Over 11,000 Images
  • Slaton Heritage Mural 10-19-06
  • Hico Ghost Signs 10-17-06
    Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & Teri Brown
  • Philosophers' Rock 10-12-06
  • Mystery Photo
  • Austin's Mystery Cafe, 1955 10-19-06
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    COLUMNS
    HISTORICAL • REGIONAL • TOPICAL COLUMNS
    Archie P. McDonald "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 40 newspapers
    • Why did they name it that? 10-23-06
    • William Marsh Rice 10-9-06
    Bob Bowman "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 40 newspapers
    • The first "over water" oil well 10-30-06
    • The Worst Feud 10-15-06
    • Jot Em Down 10-2-06
    Murray Montgomery "Lone Star Diary" Syndicated in 5 newspapers
    • "The Grand Old Lady On The Square." -
    Lavaca County Courthouse, Fourth of July, 1899
    10-18-06
    C. F. Eckhardt "Charley Eckhardt's Texas "
    • Victor T. Hamlin & Alley Oop 10-24-06

    • Santa Anna or Ste. Anne? 10-11-06
    Mike Cox "Texas Tales" Syndicated in 7 newspapers
    • Dead Man's Hole 10-30-06
    • Bowie 10-19-06
    • Extra Slow 10-12-06
    • Rankin Hotel 10-5-06

    Delbert Trew "It's All Trew" Amarillo Globe News
    • Rationing reminds of sacrifices for war effort 10-17-06
    • Some old-time superstitions prevail 10-3-06
    Clay Coppedge "Letters from Central Texas"
    • Flowers For Sarah Herndon 10-12-06
    • Haunted Hill 10-5-06
    Louise George "History by George"
    Dorothy Hamm "Words and Music"
    HUMOR • OPINION COLUMNS
    Maggie Van Ostrand "A Balloon in Cactus" National Syndicated Columnist
    • The Undead 10-10-06
    • The Mexican 10-7-06
    Peary Perry "Letters From North America" Syndicated in 80 newspapers
    • Lost in Translation 10-26-06
    • Laws Dumb and Dumber 10-12-06
    • News of the Day 10-5-06
    Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal "The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything"
    • Blame it on the Boogie 10-15-06
    MEMOIRS
    George Lester Spunky Flat and Beyond
    • Radio Static 10-19-06
    • First Date 10-1-06
    N. Ray Maxie "Rambling Ray" Ark-La-Tex
    • Strong Teenage Desire to Make Money 10-1-06
    CARTOONS • EDITOR • GUESTS
    Roger T. Moore
    • 10-3-06 • 10-10-06 • 10-17-06 • 10-24-06 • 10-30-06
    Editor & Guest Columnists "They shoe horses, don't they?" 10-1-06
     
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