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June
2011 Issue
For people who like this sort of thing
This is the sort of thing they
like. | Columns
Most
everyone has interesting tidbits to share by Delbert Trew 6-28-11
Seems
almost everyone I meet has a story, joke, old saying or an interesting tidbit.
Here are a few tales retained from a recent trip down south visiting friends and
relatives. Lives
of two Texas Rangers: Lee Hall and John Barclay Armstrong by Murray Montgomery
6-27-11
There’s
not many times when people are doing research on the history of Texas that they
don’t come across that illustrious group of lawmen known as the Texas Rangers...
Ghost
Town
Tonqua
DeWitt Co Photos courtesy Deborah Smith 6-26-11
Columns
Bowie
and his knife by Bob Bowman 6-26-11
Texas
historians have written volumes about Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo, but what
people remember most about him is a big hunting blade he carried--a weapon known
in history simply as the Bowie Knife.A
Cameo From Inside by Robert G. Cowser 6-24-11
Recently
for one year I taught first-year composition classes in a college program in a
state prison one hour from my home in Tennessee...Horned
Toads by Mike Cox 6-23-11
The
friendly feud Everett Townsend had with Alpine Avalanche editor Nig Bennett over
an unusual self-defence ability attributed to horny toads. Townsend maintained
that these critters spat blood out of their eyes when cornered. Bennett asserted
that they did not. |
| Ghost
TownBalch
Hockley Co No Photos 6-23-11
TownEstelline
Hall Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & Ken Rudine 6-22-11 |
Column
Science
Hill by Bob Bowman 6-19-11
Sitting
atop a scenic hilltop in southwestern Henderson County, Science Hill lasted only
a few decades, but its reputation as a center of education is well-remembered
by descendants of its founders and builders. So is its violence in the early days
of the Civil War...
Cartoon Quitaque
by Roger T. Moore 6-18-11 |
| Towns
Patricia
Dawson Co 6-17-11Denhawken
Wilson Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 6-16-11
ColumnErnst
Tinaja by Mike Cox 6-16-11
A
geologic feature in Big Bend National Park, a place of beauty tainted by a history
of death. |
| Towns
Sweet
Home Guadalupe Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 6-15-11
Sweet
Home Lavaca Co TE photos
ColumnWater
producers, grandmas make miracles by Delbert Trew 6-14-11
Of
all the strange, weird and confusing bits of history, none quite compare with
rain dancers, water witchers and grandmas... |
| Town
Post
Oak Guadalupe Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 6-13-11
Famous
Tree The
Big Tree Photos courtesy David Armstrong & Ken Rudine 6-13-11
Goose
Island Oak |
Column
Reforesting
the Texas National Forestsby Bob Bowman 6-12-11
President
Theodore Roosevelt established four Texas National Forests in 1936. By 1937, the
federal government had acquired more than 613,000 acres from private landowners
at an average price of $4.62 an acre. |
Towns
Center
Shelby Co Seat Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson, Lori Martin, Gerald Massey 6-10-11Teaselville
Smith Co New photo by Lori Martin 6-10-11
Columns
The
Wonderful Boy by Mike Cox 6-9-11
His
father a respected Uvalde County rancher, the quiet, good-looking Guy O. Fenley
seemed like a typical teenager except for one thing – he could see underground
water. Majestic
History by Byron Browne 6-8-11
‘Jeff
Davis County, Texas’ by Lucy Miller Jacobson and Mildred Bloys Nored.Texans
a bit different, and I'm good with that by Delbert Trew 6-7-11
The
change from rural Texas to big-city California spawned many interesting experiences...
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People
Honoring
a bull riding legend by Bob Bowman 6-5-11
Myrtis
Dightman has finally received the attention he should have had decades ago. Born
in Crockett in 1935, Dightman was a legendary bull rider who set all types of
records for riding raging bulls in rodeo arenas across the United States. |
| Theatre
The
Texas Theatre by
Dana Goolsby 6-4-11
After
nearly a century of tragedy and neglect, and a host of closings and re-openings,
the Texas Theatre, crown jewel of Palestine, has been salvaged and reborn. |
Town
Hext
Menard Co 6-4-11
Ghost
Town
Marysville
Cooke Co Vintage mape courtesy TXDoT 6-3-11
Small
Town Saga
The
Revenge of 'Devil John' McCoy by Murray Montgomery 6-3-11
John McCoy, called
“Devil John” because of his bravery and daring, wasn’t one to forgive and forget...
People
J.
Frank Dobie by Mike Cox 6-2-11
It’s
not mentioned in any of his biographies, but one of Texas’ best known authors
wrote portions of one of his best-known books while sequestered in a tarpaper-covered
shack in the Chisos Basin.
ForumThank
you from San Francisco 6-2-11
"...Thanks
for bringing her back into the room for a moment... I do have to visit the Panhandle
some day. My mother said it was awful -- yet all her life she had an affection
for the people and the culture... she never lost that. And, reading about the
place now, I realize how enormously who she was had to do with where she was from..."
- Susan Fry
CartoonBiggest
Pecan Pie by Roger T. Moore
6-2-11 |
| Submerged
Ghost TownFriendship
Williamson Co More old photos 6-2-11 |
| History
Coronado’s Search for Cibola by Jeffery Robenalt 6-1-11
Coronado’s expedition, including
250 cavalry, 80 infantry, 1000 Indians, several priests, and thousands of horses,
cattle, and sheep, departed from Culiacan in the spring of 1540. |
| TownBig
Wells Dimmit Co Vintage photos courtesy Bill Armstrong 6-1-11
Ghost
Town
Valley
Wells Dimmit Co Vintage photo courtesy Bill Armstrong 6-1-11 |
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