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  Texas : Trips : Courthouses : The Great American Legends Tour, Texas Style

The Great American Legends Tour, Texas Style,
with Bison Bill and Swoops

By Lou Ann Herda, Ed. D.

References and Additional Reading

Websites:
  • THC's Courthouse Preservation Project
    http://www.thc.state.tx.us/courthouse/CH1.html
    - which has been a major impetus for this tour (as well as my need to find something interesting to do with my life)
  • Handbook of Texas Online -
    http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online
  • National Register of Historic Places -
    http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/about.htm
  • UT Library Online
    http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/collections.html

    Books:

    The Courthouses of Texas by Mavis P. Kelsey, Sr., and Donald H. Dyal, 1993.
    I'll Die Before I'll Run, by C. L. Sonnichsen, 1988.
    I'll Tell You a Tale, by J. Frank Dobie (1981)
    Legends of Texas, by J. Frank Dobie (2000)
    The People's Architecture: Texas Courthouses, Jails, and Municipal Buildings, by Willard B. Robinson (1983)


    Go to The Great American Legends Tour
  • Texas Courthouses - Recommended Books

    The Courthouses of Texas: A Guide
    Old Friends: Great Texas Courthouses
    The Courthouse Square in Texas
     


     
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