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FEBRUARY 2008 Issue
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Route66/Resurrecting-Ghosts-of-Route-66-Pt1-El-Reno-Oklahoma-to-Shamrock-Texas.htm

ROUTE 66
Resurrecting the Ghosts of Route 66 by Noel Kerns

Part I: Oklahoma City to Shamrock, Texas 2-3-08

Part II: Shamrock to Amarillo, Texas 2-14-08

WWII

The Three Wars of Lt. Col. Kerns 2-14-08
Raymond Clyde Kerns - Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army - April 26th, 1921 - February 6th, 2008
By Noel Kerns

The Oryoku Maru and Lieutenant Walter A. Kelso, Jr.'s Journey by Bill Cherry 2-18-08
"In 1944 Lieutenant Kelso became a Japanese prisoner of war, and he passed away along with seventy-six other American soldiers because the enemy let them die of dysentery and starvation in 1945. Only one survived."

SAN ANTONIO

Comanche Lookout 2-18-08
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

ALAMO

The Mass Grave of the Alamo Defenders 2-11-08
A Virtually Unknown Feature of the Most Written-about Event in Texas History
Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley

MURALS

Bar Art by Brewster Hudspeth 2-11-08
Saloon paintings, made with varying degrees of talent have never been fully addressed by critics. Don’t worry, there’s no lecture here – just a sampling of what now passes for art in and around drinking establishments.

TEXAS TOWNS - Search 1790 Texas Towns >

Photos courtesy Mike Price

Wylie Collin Co 2-18-08

Garland Dallas Co

Archer City Archer Co 2-11-08

Photos courtesy Ken Rudine & Barclay Gibson

Santa Maria Cameron Co 2-21-08

Plantersville Grimes County 2-11-08

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Coyanosa Pecos Co 2-18-08

Flint Smith Co 2-11-08

Teaselville Smith Co 2-11-08

Stanfield Clay Co 2-11-08

Photos courtesy Jordan Gibson

Clairette Erath Co 2-11-08

Photos courtesy Tom Jones

Wildorado Oldham Co 2-7-08

Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley

Bulverde Comal Co 2-21-08

Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

Cibolo Guadalupe Co

Comal Comal Co

Etter Moore Co

Universal City Bexar Co

TE Photos

Phelps Walker Co

Photos Courtesy Mike Price

Collinsville Grayson Co

Parker Collin Co

Lowry Crossing Collin Co

Royse City Rockwall Co

Sunset Montague Co

Comal Town Comal Co No Photos

TEXAS GHOST TOWNS - Search 460 Ghost Towns >

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Shafter Lake Andrews Co 2-18-08

Photos Courtesy Mike Price

Dexter Cooke Co 2-21-08

Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley

Berg's Mill Bexar Co 2-14-08

Photos courtesy William Holmes

Democrat Mills Co 2-14-08

Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

Wetmore Bexar Co

TEXAS FEATURES • TEXAS TRIPS

USA
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels 2-7-08

Ness City, Kansas

Kansas’ Ness City Skyscraper
With a building like this, who needs a Courthouse?

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Astoria, Oregon 2-11-08

PEOPLE

Annie Rogers and the Bank Dick 2-3-08
by Maggie Van Ostrand
Annie Rogers, Kid Currie and the Great Northern Train Robbery

The Killer and Me 2-3-08
by Clay Coppedge
Jerry Lee Lewis once offered me a drink of whiskey but I turned him down...

Ann Whitney 2-11-08
The schoolteacher who died protecting her charges when Comanches attacked her one-room schoolhouse in 1867. Photos courtesy Judy McBride

TRIPS

Packsaddle Mountain 2-21-08
Photos courtesy Ernie Wymer

Bandera
By Byron Browne

Fort Mason 2-7-08
Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley

LAKES

Lake Meredith 2-7-08
Photos courtesy Tom Jones

STATE PARKS

Goliad State Park 2-11-09
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

MUSIC

Kathy Dell: A Cowboy's Sweetheart; the life of a famous unknown by Mel Brown 2-18-08
"Dell’s true importance to the state’s music history is found in the pioneering spirit and unconventional accomplishments of her career... in two male dominated professions, first as a rodeo star and then as a country musician and band leader."

VALENTINE'S DAY

A Texas-Norwegian-German Valentine 2-14-08
'No Person Shall Put Asunder' by Benard Burson - A synopsis

Valentine’s Day by Mike Cox 2-14-08
Must have been around Valentine’s Day in 1877 when a young man named Donaho took pen in hand to write a love letter to his sweetheart in Dallas...

TEXAS ARCHITECTURE • IMAGES > Over 12,000 Images

COURTHOUSES

Connections: Burlington, Kentucky and Bandera, Texas - The Courthouse Twins and the Mystery Blueprints
Feature to Feature Comparison of
Kentucky's Boone County Courthouse &
Texas' Bandera County Courthouse
Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson & Matt Becher