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Texas Travel • Texas History
DECEMBER 2008 Issue
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Vintage Images: Texas Cotton Scenes: Series II 12-22-08
Vintage Postcards William Beauchamp Collection

Column: Pranks by Mike Cox 12-31-08

Column: Good Intentions by Peary Perry 12-31-08

Column: Barbed wire called 'Devil's Rope' for a reason by Delbert Trew 12-30-08

Column: Bobo and Blair by Bob Bowman 12-30-08

Column: Belle Christmas by Mike Cox 12-22-08

Column: Burl Ives and Santa by Peary Perry 12-22-08

Column: Old mining days were hazardous by Delbert Trew 12-22-08

Column: Shotgun Houses by Bob Bowman 12-22-08

Column: Old But Odd Gift Ideas by Mike Cox 12-18-08

Column: 12-16-1927 12-18-08

Column: What Happened to America (Part Three) by Peary Perry 12-17-08

Column: O, brother, where art thou? by Delbert Trew 12-16-08

Column: Depression Parks by Bob Bowman 12-15-08

Town: Boling Wharton Co Photos courtesy Ken Rudine 12-14-08

Column: A Modern-Day Ferry Tale by Maggie Van Ostrand 12-13-08

Column: Christmas Trees in the Oil Patch by N. Ray Maxie 12-13-08

OBITUARY
Bill Stein (1954-2008)
A Bibliophile’s Bibliophile 12-12-08
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

Unveiling in San Antonio by Terry Jeanson 12-10-08
Bronze Goes Green without Verdigris
Bexar County Triumphs Over Vandalism

Town: Sarco Goliad Co Photos courtesy Will Beauchamp 12-12-08

Column: Pearl Harbor attack teaches a valuable lesson by Murray Montgomery 12-12-08

Column: Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang by Mike Cox 12-11-08

Town: Blanconia Bee Co Photos courtesy Will Beauchamp 12-11-08

Town: Charco Goliad Co Photos courtesy Will Beauchamp 12-11-08

Column: What Happened to America? (Part Two) by Peary Perry 12-10-08

Column: Garrett Murder by C. F. Eckhardt 12-9-08

Cartoon: December 11, 1835 by Roger T. Moore 12-9-08

Column: Apologies Instead of Resolutions by Maggie Van Ostrand 12-8-08

Column: I.H. Kempner, Edmund R. Cheeseborough and Billy Cherry Discuss Politics by Bill Cherry 12-8-08

Column: The town of Chickenfeather by Bob Bowman 12-8-08

Column: Babylon Blvd. by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal 12-8-08

Guest Column: Bob Wade by Byron Browne 12-5-08
Even if you blink, you won’t miss them. Bob Wade’s artwork sits saddled atop so much of Texas that you would have a difficult time not seeing it. From Austin to Houston to San Antonio to Abilene his over-sized, sometimes monstrous, oftentimes Titanic creations have become so iconic, so much a part of our landscape that they frequently define the area that they inhabit.

Town: Schattel Frio Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 12-4-08

Town: Lavon Collin Co Photos courtesy Mike Price 12-4-08

Column: Bad Man Returns by Mike Cox 12-4-08

Cartoon: 1894 by Roger T. Moore 12-4-08