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New East Texas book

"Bob Bowman’s East Texas"

124 stories you might not know if you didn’t read this book

Best of East Texas Publishers

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East Texas author Bob Bowman’s latest book, a collection of some of his “All Things Historical” newspaper columns and other short stories, may provide some surprises for East Texans.

“Bob Bowman’s East Texas,” subtitled “124 stories you might not know if you didn’t read this book,” is the Lufkin author’s 33rd book.

In it, he writes about unusual East Texans, heroes, inventors and innovators, some of the region’s little-known characters, landmarks and forgotten places, superstitions, graves, ghosts, the East Texas Indian heritage, local music venues, and tales of tragedy.

He explores General George Armstrong Custer’s days in East Texas, the East Texas connection to the movie Casablanca, an East Texan who was the tallest man in the Confederate Army, the six East Texas towns claiming to be the site of explorer La Salle’s murder, and East Texans who claim they invented the hamburger and the airplane.

The book includes stories from dozens of East Texas towns from the Red River to Deep East Texas, including Anderson, Athens, Atlanta, Beckville, Bonham, Carthage, Center, Centerville, Clarksville, Crockett, Diboll, Elkhart, Fairfield, Groveton, Grapeland, Hemphill, Henderson, Jacksonville, Jasper, Kountze, Livingston, Lufkin, Longview, Lumberton, Marshall, Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, Nacogdoches, Navasota, New London, Newton, Palestine, Paris, Pittsburg, Rusk, San Augustine, Saratoga, Shelbyville, Trinity, Tyler, Weldon, Willis, Woodville and Zavalla.

Bowman, a public relations executive and former newspaperman at Tyler, Lufkin and Houston, said he has always had a preference for local history in East Texas, leading one editor to call him “the people’s historian.”

He and Archie McDonald write weekly newspaper columns for more than sixty East Texas newspapers and two Texas websites. The columns are distributed by the East Texas Historical Association.

Order Information:

“Bob Bowman’s East Texas” may be purchased from Best of East Texas Publishers, PO Box 1647, Lufkin, Texas 75902, by calling telephone 936-634-7444, or ordering online at bob-bowman.com.
See "All Things Historical" column

December 15, 2005
 
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