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New
Bats
5-5-08
Bats are coming back to Texas for the summer, which isn’t news because
bats have spent their summers in Texas for the past 10,000 years.
Only their failure to return would rate a banner headline... |
Texas History
and Travel Columns
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Columns
Old
Bill and Handsome Wolf 4-7-08
The
Plight of the Pleurocoeleus 3-17-08
Dinosaurs in
Texas
Goodrich
Jones: The best friend Texas trees ever had 3-6-08
Avisadores:
Messengers of Light 2-18-08
The
Killer and Me 2-3-08
Sanctified
Sisters 11-7-07
Yoko
on the Llanos 10-21-07
The
Trials and Tribulations of El Kabong 10-5-07
A
Man Named Pink 9-18-07
Ode
to the Oleo Strut 9-3-07
Loco
on the Llanos 8-16-07
Lubbock
Lights and UFOs 8-7-07
King
of the Hill 7-15-07
White
Lightning 6-30-07
South
Llano River State Park 6-15-07
Acres
and Acres of Acres 6-1-07
The Hill Country State Natural Area
The
Life and Times of Whitey Walker 5-1-07
From
Patty Hearst to Salado4-16-07
Charles Turnbo writes about history but he has also witnessed a
fair amount it...
What
Stanley Walker Saw 2-16-07
Texas'
Most Civilized Soul 2-1-07
Roy Bedichek
Historic
Joe Lee 1-22-07
Zipperlandville,
and Other Places 1-3-07
Mother
Neff State Park: Texas' first 12-8-06
Colorado
Bend: It Is What It Is 11-21-06
Lanky
and the POWs 11-8-06
Mildred "Lanky" Lancaster
Flowers
For Sarah Herndon 10-12-06
Haunted
Hill 10-5-06
A
Classic Walk on The Wild Side 9-21-06
Sam
Bass: The Not So Merry Bandit 9-13-06
In
Praise of Texas Corn 8-22-06
The
Texas Longhorn: Shaped By Nature 8-7-06
The
Life and Times of Big Bill Babb 7-18-06
Jesse
James, Supposedly 7-3-06
The
Chisholm Trail Rides Again 6-11-06
Anyone wanting to follow the Old Chisholm Trail through Bell County
would find part of the quest relatively easy, at least as easy as
driving on IH-35...
Westphalia
Waltz 5-30-06
Even in Texas, more people probably know more about the song 'Westphalia
Waltz' than they know about the town of Westphalia, the song's namesake.
Yalgo,
the legendary horse 5-17-06
The
Old Bartlett Western Railroad 4-27-06
What the old Bartlett Western Railroad lacked in revenue, it more
than made up for in local color, history and folklore.
Folk
Medicine 4-11-06
"Today we can drive the countryside and see grasses, flowers,
weeds, critters, trees and the like. Modern-day herbalists and naturalists
can still see a drug store..."
Life,
death and dog-trot houses 3-11-06
"Driving west on State Highway 36 toward Gatesville, just past
Flat, if you look at just the right time at the right place you
can see an old dog-trot house sitting about 100 yards off the road,
somewhat camouflaged by a couple of trees but recognizable for what
it is all the same..."
Kempner
2-23-06
Phantom
Alligators 1-21-06
FM
2843 1-1-06
The old road to Austin
FM
116: In The Shadow of Fort Hood 12-9-05
Horny
Toad Hypnosis 11-17-05
"Once an almost ubiquitous part of the Texas landscape and
psyche, the horny toad has been mighty hard to find for a long time."
John
Trlica 11-1-05
"Every picture tells a story only as long as people know the
story."
Windmills
10-16-05
"This may be a bitter pill for some Texans to swallow, but
the windmill was not invented in Texas. Neither was the Colt revolver.
Ditto barbed wire."
Bird's
Creek 9-28-05
"Sometimes history remembers the marksman and other times it's
the victim whose name attaches itself to historical immortality..."
Tonkawa
Tales 8-26-05
"The Tonkawa Indians have been gone from Central Texas for
more than a century, but it's hard to spend much time in Central
Texas without finding evidence of the life they once lived here."
Joe
Tex 8-4-05
Salt
of the South 7-15-05
"The Civil War has been called by some historians 'The War
Between the Salts' because salt was only slightly less important
to the Union and Confederate armies than ammunition. ... Much of
the salt used by the Confederate Army was produced about eight miles
south of where Lometa is now, at a place called Swenson Salines..."
Taking
Dead Aim in Izoro 7-1-05
If you keep in mind that Izoro is more of a destination of the mind
than an actual physical destination you are likely to have a fine
time getting there.
George
Sessions Perry 6-15-05
ROCKDALE - Traces of the town that George Sessions Perry knew and
wrote about in the first half of the Twentieth Century can still
be found in Rockdale.
The
Eerie Demise of Johnny Horton 5-26-05
Despite Johnny Horton's wild-at-heart looks and voice, he was a
man haunted for years by ominous premonitions of his own death.
He often promised those close to him he would contact them from
beyond the grave.
Killer
Vultures 5-10-05
Groovin'
at The Grove 4-1-05
People who drop by Dube's General Store here expecting to see a
ghost town might leave disappointed.
Metheglin
Creek 2-22-05
Metheglin, the brew, has fared well in the intervening years. From
being the drink-of-choice for intemperate settlers, it's now bottled
and rhapsodized over like fine wine. Spicing appears to be the key
to quality metheglin.
Name
of This Town Rings A Bell
Ding Dong, Texas 1-16-05
Legends
of the Pancake Mine 1-1-05
The
Most Famous Bathtub in Coryell County 12-15-04
"Thomas and Laquita Barton's house outside of town has the
first bathtub in Coryell County, a hand-carved limestone classic...."
Never
another like Bill Pickett 12-1-04
Bill Pickett invented the practice of what we know as bulldogging,
or steer wrestling....
Major
Butt and the Titantic 11-15-04
Good
old New Corn Hill 10-29-04
Ol'
Paint's ride started in Bartlett 10-15-04
Identifying who actually penned the classic trail drive song "Goodbye
Old Paint" is about as easy as trying to figure out which horse
on which cattle drive inspired the song...
Renaissance
Man of Buckholts 9-28-04
PRAIRIE
DELL
Tranquil setting belies past 9-24-04
The principle set for the sequel to the movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
The
Hobo of Little River-Academy
© Clay Coppedge
Column began August, 2004 |
Clay Coppedge
Clay Coppedge
is a regular contributor to Texas Co-op Power magazine. His work has
also appeared in Acres USA, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Field and Stream,
Gulf Coast Golfer, Texas Fisherman and other magazines and newspapers.
He has worked as a sports editor in Williamson County and as a reporter
for the Temple Daily Telegram as well as stints as a cab driver, busboy
and other jobs too odd to mention. He lives and writes near Walburg
in Williamson County.
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