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Texas Travel • Texas History
December 2006 Issue
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HOUSTON

Houston's Gulf Building 12-1-06

TEXAS IMAGES

Texas Panhandle Through the Lens of Eric Blackwell 12-1-06

FORT WORTH

Fort Worth Through the Lens of C DeWaun Simmons
12-17-06

Fort Worth Through the Lens of C DeWaun Simmons - II 12-17-06

TRIPS

Terlingua 12-8-06
by Byron Browne

TEXAS TOWNS - Search 1505 Texas Towns >

Pilot Point 12-1-06
Photos courtesy Robin Jett

Rankin 12-5-06
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson

Hallettsville 12-15-06
Photo courtesy Murray Montgomery

Greenville 12-16-06
Photo courtesy Milton Babb

Cooper 12-17-06
Photo courtesy Justin Parson

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson:

Bronte 12-8-06

Blackwell 12-8-06

Bateman 12-1-06

Paint Rock 12-18-06

Earlywine 12-18-06

Kosse 12-22-06

Photos courtesy Lori Martin: 12-11-06

Corsicana - Navarro County Courthouse

Whitesboro (No Photos) 12-22-06

Boling (No Photos) 12-5-06

TEXAS GHOST TOWNS - Search 401 Ghost Towns >

Gay Hill TE photos 12-1-06

Cheeseland No Photos 12-1-06

Kiomatia No Photos 12-1-06

Petersburg ( No Photos) 12-16-06

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 12-1-06

Bryant Station

Bois D'Arc

TEXAS FEATURES • TEXAS TRIPS

"Texas' Favorite Detour"
Could Medicine Mound be Texas' most interesting ghost town? 12-1-06

The Night the Posse Chased Santa by Maggie Van Ostrand 12-1-06
December 23 will mark the 79th anniversary of the bloody melodrama which was about to take place in the town of Cisco...

Colorado Bend: It Is What It Is by Clay Coppedge
Colorado Bend State Park

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TEXAS ARCHITECTURE • IMAGES > Over 11,000 Images

JAILS Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson 12-6-06

Blanco County Jail

Coleman County Jail

Jeff Davis County Jail

McCulloch County Jail

Shackelford County Jail

Coke County Former Jail Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson 12-10-06

BRIDGES

Cotton Belt Road Bridge 12-1-06
Photos courtesy Judy McBride

COURTHOUSES

Cooke County 12-22-06
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

STATUES

Tejas Warrior, Dallas 12-22-06
Photo courtesy Jason Grant

THEATERS

Waco Hippodrome Theater

12-9-06

COLUMNS

HISTORICAL • REGIONAL • TOPICAL COLUMNS

Archie P. McDonald "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 70 newspapers
• Alto 12-18-06
• "My Blue Heaven: Gene Austin" 12-4-06

Bob Bowman "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 70 newspapers
• The Circus Fight 12-24-06
• The Piney Woods 12-11-06

Murray Montgomery "Lone Star Diary" Syndicated in 5 newspapers
• It's a Wonderful Life 12-6-06

W. T. Block Jr. "Cannonball's Tales"
• The Last Voyage of the Hotspur 12-16-06
• The 1862 Hangings at Gainesville Texas 12-1-06

C. F. Eckhardt "Charley Eckhardt's Texas "
• Fox in the Pickup Bed 12-15-06
• O. Henry and the Shoal Creek Treasure 12-1-06

Mike Cox "Texas Tales" Syndicated in 10 newspapers
• New Year's Day 12-28-06
• Early Hunting 12-21-06
• Burnt Boot Creek 12-14-06
• Blue Northers 12-7-06

Delbert Trew "It's All Trew" Amarillo Globe News
• Work continued despite weather conditions 12-15-06
• Old gardeners avoided 'feast or famine' route 12-1-06

Clay Coppedge "Letters from Central Texas"
• Mother Neff State Park 12-8-06

Dorothy Hamm "Words and Music"
• Hoyt Axton: Artist Unclassified 12-9-06

HUMOR • OPINION COLUMNS

Maggie Van Ostrand "A Balloon in Cactus" National Syndicated Columnist
• New Year's Resolutions 2007 12-28-06
• Deporting Santa Claus 12-19-06
• Christmas Shopping 12-13-06
• Rachael Bites Into Martha 12-10-06
• The Night the Posse Chased Santa 12-1-06

Peary Perry "Letters From North America" Syndicated in 80 newspapers
• Christmas Gifts I Can't Use 12-27-06
• A Wonderful Time of the Year 12-14-06
• Christ at Christmas Time 12-7-06
• Heartburn 12-1-06

Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal "The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything"
• What Next? 12-16-06
• Baffle 'Em With Grannyspeak! 12-1-06

MEMOIRS

George Lester Spunky Flat and Beyond
• The Producer 12-15-06
• Discovering the Advantages of Radio 12-1-06

N. Ray Maxie "Rambling Ray" Ark-La-Tex
• Preacher and the Squirrel Hunt 12-1-06

CARTOONS • EDITOR • GUESTS

Roger T. Moore
• 12-5-06 • 12-11-06 • 12-19-06 • 12-27-06

Editor & Guest Columnists "They shoe horses, don't they?"
• Longview: A Memoir by Mike Campbell 12-4-06

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