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New
East Texas book"Bob
Bowman’s East Texas"124
stories you might not know if you didn’t read this bookBest
of East Texas Publishers |
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East
Texas author Bob Bowman’s latest book, a collection of some of his “All
Things Historical” newspaper columns and other short stories, may provide
some surprises for East Texans.
“Bob Bowman’s East Texas,” subtitled “124
stories you might not know if you didn’t read this book,” is the Lufkin author’s
33rd book.
In it, he writes about unusual East Texans, heroes, inventors
and innovators, some of the region’s little-known characters, landmarks and forgotten
places, superstitions, graves, ghosts, the East Texas Indian heritage, local music
venues, and tales of tragedy.
He explores General George Armstrong Custer’s
days in East Texas, the East Texas connection to the movie Casablanca, an East
Texan who was the tallest man in the Confederate Army, the six East Texas towns
claiming to be the site of explorer La Salle’s murder, and East Texans who claim
they invented the hamburger and the airplane.
The book includes stories
from dozens of East Texas towns from the Red River to Deep East Texas, including
Anderson, Athens, Atlanta, Beckville, Bonham, Carthage, Center, Centerville, Clarksville,
Crockett, Diboll, Elkhart, Fairfield, Groveton, Grapeland, Hemphill, Henderson,
Jacksonville, Jasper, Kountze, Livingston, Lufkin, Longview, Lumberton, Marshall,
Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, Nacogdoches, Navasota, New London, Newton, Palestine,
Paris, Pittsburg, Rusk, San Augustine, Saratoga, Shelbyville, Trinity, Tyler,
Weldon, Willis, Woodville and Zavalla.
Bowman, a public relations executive
and former newspaperman at Tyler, Lufkin and Houston, said he has always had a
preference for local history in East Texas, leading one editor to call him “the
people’s historian.”
He and Archie McDonald write weekly newspaper columns
for more than sixty East Texas newspapers and two Texas websites. The columns
are distributed by the East Texas Historical Association. |
Order
Information: “Bob
Bowman’s East Texas” may be purchased from Best of East Texas Publishers, PO Box
1647, Lufkin, Texas 75902, by calling telephone 936-634-7444, or ordering online
at bob-bowman.com.
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