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Texas Travel • Texas History
July 2008 Issue
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TOWNS
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels
  • Hillsboro Hill Co 7-7-08

    Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley
  • Homer Angelina Co 7-21-08

    Photos courtesy Brett Christoffel

  • Whitewright Grayson Co 7-3-08
  • Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson
  • Marathon Brewster Co 7-24-08
  • Snook Burleson Co 7-30-08
  • Stonewall Gillespie Co 7-28-08
  • Scroggins Franklin Co 7-28-08
  • Bloomington Victoria Co 7-21-08
  • Structure Williamson Co 7-21-08
  • Wallis Austin Co 7-10-08
  • Rochelle McCulloch Co 7-3-08
  • Adamsville Lampasas Co 6-26-08
    Adamsville Through Truss Bridge
  • Arneckeville DeWitt Co 6-26-08
  • Arthur City Lamar Co 6-30-08

    TE Photos
  • Wallisville Chambers Co 7-30-08
  • Adina Lee Co 6-26-08



  • Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson
  • Dalhart Dallam Co 7-3-08

    Photos courtesy Jordan Gibson
  • Squeezepenny Collin Co
  • No Photos
  • Aiken Shelby Co 6-26-08
  • Alfred Jim Wells 6-26-08
  • Allison Wheeler Co 6-26-08
  • Ames Liberty Co 6-30-08
  • Amherst Lamar Co 6-30-08
  • Apple Springs Trinity Co 6-30-08
  • Appleby Nacogdoches Co 6-26-08
  • Argyle Denton Co 6-26-08
  • Arroyo City Cameron Co 6-30-08
  • Artesia Wells La Salle 6-26-08
  • Avery Red River Co 6-30-08
  • Avondale Tarrant Co 6-30-08
    More New - See MARCH / APRIL 2008 ISSUE
  • TEXAS GHOST TOWNS - Browse 473 Ghost Towns >

  • The Story of Indianola by Maggie Van Ostrand 6-30-08
  • Jonesville Angelina Co Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley 7-21-08
  • Buena Vista Shelby Co No Photos 7-21-08
    More New - See MAY / JUNE 2008 ISSUE
  • TEXAS FEATURES TEXAS TRIPS

    SPLASH ACROSS TEXAS
    Excerpted from "Splash Across Texas", 1999
    by Chandra Moira Beal
  • Lady Bird Lake, formerly Town Lake, Austin 7-25-08
  • Krause Springs 6-30-08
  • Bull Creek, Austin 7-17-08
  • Lake Belton 7-17-08
  • Llano River 7-17-08
  • TEXAS CENTENNIAL
    By Sarah Reveley:
  • Alamo Museum 7-3-08
  • Casa Mañana, Fort Worth 7-21-08
  • McMahan's Chapel 7-28-08
  • PEOPLE
  • Mary Ann Goodnight and the Texas State Bison Herd by Linda Kirkpatrick 7-11-08
    Their story began many, many years ago and when you know it your heart will fill with the same pride that you get at you watch Old Glory waving in the breeze.
    Photos courtesy Ken Rudine & Stephen Michaels
  • Former slave recalls memories of old Lavaca County by Murray Montgomery 7-7-08
  • Mr. Goss and Belmont’s Goss Barbeque by John Troesser 7-24-08
  • Terry's Texas Rangers by Mike Cox 7-3-08
    "The Texans who rode with the Terry and Lubbock, and later under Col. John A. Wharton, paid a high price for their beliefs. Of 1,700 who served in the regiment, the 8th Texas consisted of only 150 men by the end of the war."

    GHOSTS
  • The Legend Of Bone Hill by Bob Bowman 7-7-08
    Bone Hill, a landmark standing about four miles northeast of Center, reportedly got its name from a herd of cattle who died atop the mill, leaving their bones to whiten in the East Texas sun. But, as with all legends, there’s more to the story...
  • WWII | BOOKS
  • Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War by Mel Brown 6-26-08
  • ANIMAL STORIES
  • With A Pit Bull On My Knee by Clay Coppedge 7-24-08
    DRIVES
  • Turning 77 on 288 or "We just left where we thought we were headed." by Ken Rudine 7-24-08
  • TEXAS ARCHITECTUREIMAGES > Over 12,000 Images
    COURTHOUSES Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson
  • Harrison County Courthouse 6-26-08
  • Anderson County Courthouse 7-29-08
  • Angelina County Courthouse 7-20-08
  • Hood County Courthouse 7-3-08
  • Dallam County Courthouse 7-3-08
  • Haskell County Courthouse 7-3-08
  • BRIDGES
  • San Antonio’s Hays Street Bridge Restoration 7-21-08
    Courtesy of Sparks Engineering, Inc.


    IMAGES
  • Roadrunner Photos courtesy Ken Rudine 7-14-08
  • COLUMNS
    PHOTO COLUMN
    WHERE'S STEPHEN?
    America Coast to Coast, Day by Day

    Travelog of a a cross-country, big-rig trucker
    TEXAS HISTORICAL • REGIONAL • TOPICAL COLUMNS
    Archie P. McDonald "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 70 newspapers
  • Howard Hughes 7-28-08
  • Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition 7-14-08
  • History All Over 6-30-08
  • Bob Bowman "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 70 newspapers
  • Buena Vista 7-21-08
  • The Legend Of Bone Hill 7-7-08
  • Murray Montgomery "Lone Star Diary" Syndicated in 5 newspapers
  • Former slave recalls memories of old Lavaca County 7-7-08
  • W. T. Block Jr. "Cannonball's Tales"
    C. F. Eckhardt "Charley Eckhardt's Texas "
  • Al Jennings 7-21-08
  • Mike Cox "Texas Tales" Syndicated in 11 newspapers
  • Possum Trot 7-30-08
  • Steamship Texas Ranger 7-24-08
  • Old Pecos 7-17-08
  • Cuttings 7-10-08
  • Twin Towns 6-26-08
  • Delbert Trew "It's All Trew" Amarillo Globe News
  • Deadly trail tamed by fort's installation 7-29-08
  • Old West accounts often fabrications 7-24-08
  • Vigilantes were the law in frontier towns 7-17-08
  • Technology replacing old ranching ways 7-10-08
  • Fresh beef top concern for settlers 7-3-08
  • Forts the front line for Texas 6-26-08
  • Clay Coppedge "Letters from Central Texas"
  • The Unholy Catfish 7-10-08
  • Bill Cherry "Bill Cherry's Galveston Memories"
  • Jackie Gleason and Michael DeBakey Apparently Shared A Passion 7-14-08
  • Linda-Kirkpatrick "Somewhere in the West"
  • Mary Ann Goodnight and the Texas State Bison Herd 7-11-08

  • HUMOR • OPINION COLUMNS
    Maggie Van Ostrand "A Balloon in Cactus" National Syndicated Columnist
  • What You Don't Know About Mexico 7-17-08
  • The Story of Indianola 6-30-08
  • Peary Perry "Letters From North America" Syndicated in 80 newspapers
  • Energy Policy 7-30-08
  • Being Parents 7-24-08
  • A Letter to Her Majesty 7-17-08
  • Ghost Voting 7-10-08
  • Dumbing Down of America 7-3-08
  • Malpractice Insurance 6-26-08
  • Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal "The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything"
  • Ten Gazillion Dollars! 7-3-08
  • Gael Montana "The View from Under the Bus"
  • Investing in Our Boomer Selves 5-26-08

  • TEXAS MEMOIRS
    N. Ray Maxie "Rambling Ray" Ark-La-Tex
  • "Watermelons Fresh and Fine. Watermelons Right off the Vine." 7-3-08

  • TEXAS CARTOONS • EDITOR • GUESTS
    Roger T. Moore
  • 7-10-08 | 7-17-08 | 7-24-08 | 7-29-08 |
  • Editor & Guest Columnists "They shoe horses, don't they?"
  • Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War by Mel Brown 6-26-08
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