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July
2013 Issue
For people who like this sort of thing
This is the sort of thing they
like. |
Fifteen
Years of Texas Stories and Photos
On
the occasion of our 15th anniversary of publication we would like to thank
the hundreds of contributors who have shared their memories, thoughts and experiences
of Texas, and express our gratitude to our long-time contributors
for their dedication to their written and photographic projects and for allowing
us to share them with our readers. We enter our 16th year with enthusiastic anticipation
for the stories and photographs we have yet to share.
Sincerely,
John
Troesser and Kate Wong Troesser, Editor and Webmaster |
 | Obituary
7-15-13
Bob
Bowman
June 3, 1936 - July
13, 2013 | |
| History
The
Birth of a Republic
by Jeffery Robenalt 7-1-13
The
military phase of the Texas Revolution began on October 2, 1835, with the Battle
of Gonzales, but a meeting of Texas delegates known as the Consultation was the
true beginning of the political struggle. | |
Columns
Gone
to Texas Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 7-29-13Wreck
of the steamship Mary Summers by Murray Montgomery 7-29-13
Beneath
the waters of the Navidad River rests the wreckage of the Confederate iron-hulled
steamship known as Mary Summers. Listed on National Register of Historic Places.Death
Of The Salesman by David Knape 7-28-13Frontier
Times by Mike Cox 7-27-13
In
the fall of 1923, with the Old West still very much alive in the memory of many
who had lived it, a peregrinating newspaperman named J. Marvin Hunter started
a monthly magazine called Frontier Times... |
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TownsBigfoot
Frio Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-26-13Meadow
Terry Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-26-13Mecca
Madison Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-21-13 |
| Thorndale
Milam Co Photos courtesy Jo Ann Arnold & Barclay Gibson 7-20-13Driscoll
Nueces County Photo courtesy Jo Ann Arnold 7-20-13Brandon
Hill Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-19-13 |
Columns
Close
encounters of the canned kind by Wanda Orton 7-21-13
I’m
not the only one who is fearful of close encounters of the canned kind. Many of
my friends share my anxiety and suffer, as I do, from a kind of dough-phobia.Texans
Across State Lines by Bruce Martin 7-21-13
During
my junior high school years, my father worked with a construction company installing
oil and gas transmission pipelines throughout Louisiana and southern Mississippi...Branding
Cattle Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 7-18-13"Here's
the money, but I'm not Bill Thompson." by Mike Cox 7-17-13
“Ever
run into Ben Thompson?” the reporter asked, hoping for a story about the English-born
gambler, gunman and one-time Austin city marshal gunned down in a San Antonio
saloon in 1884. |
| Ghost
Towns Bear
Creek Settlement Kimble Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson
7-16-13
Historic
Landmark
Brambletye
Kimble Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-16-13 |
| Ghost
Towns Olmos
Bee Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp & Jo Ann Arnold 7-12-13 |
| Towns
& Ghost Towns Atlas
Lamar Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-9-13Coletoville
Victoria Co New photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-5-13Pierce
Wharton Co New photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-4-13Petersburg
Lavaca Co Ghost Town Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson 7-2-13 |
Columns
Amarillo
Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 7-8-13Jim
Bowie’s Fight at Calf Creek C. F. Eckhardt 7-8-13
Old
Matt told Ralph the story of the fight. It’s not the story the Bowie brothers
told. It’s not even close. It was, however, told by someone who was a participant
in the fight...Peyote
Gardens by Clay Coppedge 7-6-13
In
an environment full of cacti, somebody adapted one particular and not very prolific
cactus into an intoxicant, a hallucinogen and a sacrificial rite that has spanned
several centuries and diverse theologies. |
| | People
Connie
Hagar and Roger Tory Peterson by Ken Rudine 7-1-13
The Connie Hagar
Sanctuary site was chosen as the first named stop on the Central Coast portion
of the Great Texas Birding Trail. | | |
