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November 2012 Issue
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Railroad
Columns
  • Railroad in the Red, and Brazilian Bats by Mike Cox 11-29-12
    Old Tunnel State Park - The first thing anyone notices while walking down the trail toward the old tunnel is the smell, the olfactory result of all the guano deposited by the 3 million or so bats that live there part of the year.
  • A G.I. Joe Christmas by Dianne West Short 11-29-12
    Years ago, G. I. Joe and his military buddies were a passion of our oldest son West...
  • Texas Town Names Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 11-27-12
  • Making music in Sacul by Bob Bowman 11-26-12
    On the fourth Saturday night each month, the Nacogdoches County community of Sacul hosts one of the best country music venues in East Texas--a collection of bands playing mostly bluegrass standards.
  • Athens
    Henderson County
    Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson
    11-25-12
  • Athens County seat
  • Henderson County Courthouse
  • Van
    Towns
  • Van Van Zandt Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 11-24-12
  • Swiss Alp Fayette Co 11-19-12
  • The Swiss Alp Dance Hall by David Knape 11-19-12
  • Swiss Alp
    Best
    Ghost Town
  • Best Reagan Co Vintage photos 11-19-12
  • People
  • Austin Mystery Murders by Mike Cox 11-21-12
    Only a village with a few hundred residents in 1841, Austin experienced at least a couple of homicides that year that by today’s standards read more like big-city whodunits.
  • Have Ashes, Will Travel by Maggie Van Ostrand 11-20-12
    “I can’t go on,” I bawled to the empty room. Markus, my beloved canine companion who had been with me for over 14 adventure filled years, had passed away two weeks earlier...
  • Nov. 19, 1969 - Texan on Moon History Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 11-19-12
  • Albert Pike in Comancheria by Clay Coppedge 11-18-12
    Albert Pike was one of the most remarkable but enigmatic figures in American history and also one of the first white men to venture onto the Llano Estacado in the Texas Panhandle when that land was the heart of Comancheria...
  • Navidad
    Cemeteries
  • Navidad Baptist Cemetery 11-17-12
    Schulenburg, Fayette County
    Photos courtesy Anthony Rose
  • Waxahachie City Cemetery Photos courtesy David Cole 11-11-12
  • Waxahachie
    Automobiles
  • One piece at a time by Murray Montgomery 11-16-12
    Oliver Albert, a resident of Gonzales, and his hand-built Longhorn II automobile
  • My First Set of Wheels by Bruce Martin 11-16-12
  • kittens
    Columns
  • "Dear Papa's 'Rules'" or Give Pease a Chance by Mike Cox 11-13 -12
    Every parent who has ever helped their child move into a dorm room on a hot summer day at the beginning of their freshman year in college will understand the letter former Gov. E.M. Pease sent to one of his daughters in 1866.
  • The Box of Four Kittens by Bill Cherry 11-12-12
    “If you become a teacher, by your pupils you will be taught.”
  • Texas Bigger Than France Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 11-12-12
  • Dawson
    Dawson County Ghost Towns
  • Michies 11-11-12
  • Hindman 11-11-12
  • More Dawson County Towns & Ghost Towns
  • Troutman
    People
  • Joanna Troutman by Luke Warm 11-9-12
    “Betsy Ross of Texas”
    Storms
  • Big Wind From Winnetka a Mere Breeze Compared To the Big Blow In Beaumont by Frances Giles 11-9-12
    No one could have imagined the terrible destruction that was about to wreak havoc on the lower Louisiana coast in June 1957 when a hurricane named Audrey roared in with a vengeance.
  • Odell
    Towns
  • Tira Hopkins Co 11-11-12
  • New London Rusk Co 11-9-12
  • Odell Wilbarger Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & Billy Gilbert 11-7-12
  • Nigton Trinity Co Ghost Town GLO vintage map 11-6-12
  • wild man
    Columns
  • Birthday Cake with 111 Candles washed down with "Good" whiskey by Mike Cox 10-7-12
    Sullivan claimed his mother had been one of George Washington’s slaves. Eventually freed by the first president...
  • The (Original) Wild man of Borneo And The Ballad of Zack Hargis Photo and Text courtesy of Kelly Haight 11-6-12
  • Jasper
    Towns
  • Jasper Jasper Co Seat Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 11-6-12
  • Centennial Panola Co GLO vintage map 11-6-12
  • Furrh Panola Co GLO vintage map 11-6-12
  • Midyett Panola Co GLO vintage map 11-6-12
  • Concord
  • Murvaul Panola Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey
  • Concord Rusk Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 11-1-12
  • Diana Upshur Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 11-4-12
  • Battle
    Columns
  • Battle of Antelope Hills by Jeffrey Robenalt 11-4-12
    During the years 1856 to 1858, Comanche raids on the Texas frontier began to escalate as settlers encroached further into the Comancheria. Ironically, matters finally came to a boil when four white outlaws disguised as Comanches massacred James B. Cambren and his two sons, who were plowing a new field on their homestead bordering the Brazos River in the far northwest corner of Young County.
  • People
  • Sally Skull by Clay Coppedge 11-1-12
    Well-behaved women rarely make history, the saying goes, and a woman known to history as Sally Skull can be used to reinforce the point.
  • Mrs. Dach's Weight Reduction Regimen: It's Easy, It's Effective, It's Fatal by Mike Cox 10-31-12
    If there’s a haunted jail in Texas, it’s the 1882-vintage former lockup in La Grange, used for a mere 102 years to house miscreants and felons in Fayette County.
  • Cartoon
  • Texas Pumpkins History Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 10-31-12
    Courthouse
  • Hood County Courthouse Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson 10-31-12
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