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Home : New Texas Escapes Magazine September Issue 2004 TEXAS TOWNS Central Texas Towns Quinlan 9-12 Ridge - Photos by Erik Whetstone 9-21 Five towns with photos by Jim & Lou Kinsey: Bee House 9-1 Pearl 9-1 Pidcoke 9-1 Rumley 9-1 Topsey 9-1 Photos by John Troesser: Carmine 9-7 Jacksboro 9-12 Kosse 9-21 East Texas Towns Emory 9-24 Iris 9-11 Sour Lake - Home of Texaco 9-28 Texarkana 9-7 Gulf Coast Towns Dayton - Photos by John Troesser 9-10 Friendswood 9-23 Humble - Photos by John Troesser 9-9 Kemah by Keith Hatton 9-8 Liberty - Photos by John Troesser 9-10 Hill Country Towns Florence 9-23 South Texas Towns Roma - Photos by John Troesser 9-27 Karnes City - Photos by John Troesser 9-21 Panhandle Towns Blanket - Photo byTeri Brown historictexas.net 9-15 Canyon 9-15 Iowa Park 9-11 Quail 9-12 Raywood 9-28 Water Valley 9-24 West Texas Towns Pyote 9-24-04 Texas Ghost Towns Adobe Walls - Photo by Erik Whetstone 9-24 Whiteflat - Photos by Jon M. Hager 9-15 Ammannsville - Photos by John Troesser 9-7 IMAGES Mount Bonnell 9-1 COLUMNS "They shoe horses, don't they?" - Editorial Sailors in Limestone by Johnny Stucco 9-11 The Crystal City Statue That Might’ve Been Don't Mess with Oklahoma Either! 9-1 Flat Tire in Spinachville by John Troesser 9-1 HISTORY Archie P. McDonald Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca 9-23 Among the first Europeans who actually spent time in Texas Braniff International 9-7 "Long before American Airlines moved to Dallas or Continental dominated Houston, Braniff flew the skies over Texas." Bob Bowman A Railroad Holdup by Bob Bowman 9-28 Railroaders love to tell stories, and the one they relish the most is about the railroad president and the holdup man. Hushpuppies 9-15 The annual Southern Hushpuppy Cookoffs in Lufkin Mike Cox Tres Presidents 9-23 Presidents' military records Poison Doc 9-23 America’s first serial killer Lost in the Flood 9-16 New York 9-7 Its final voyage, and sunken treasure Murray Montgomery Survivor tells of dreadful ordeal... A captive of the Comanche 9-8 LIFE IN TEXAS Delbert Trew The Great Nail Pickup 9-1 Louise George Buyer Beware! - Ola Covey as told to Louise George 9-28 For Fun 9-16 Nola Sheldon as told to Louise George How I Got My Name 9-1 Zuleika Kendrick O’Daniel as told to Louise George Clay Coppedge Renaissance Man of Buckholts by Clay Coppedge 9-28 Civilization as we know it did not develop on John Greiner's place northwest of here but it might seem that way when you're touring his place via the Little River Miniature Railroad. PRAIRIE DELL, Tranquil setting belies past 9-24 The principle set for the sequel to the movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." HUMOR Maggie Van Ostrand The Pinking of America 9-28 Man Stores 9-1 Peary Perry When News Becomes Drama 9-24 Gasoline Prices 9-15 Bipartisan Follies 9-7 Circle of Life 9-1 Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal There’s One Born Every Minute 9-16 Move Over Ansel Adams! 9-9 MEMOIR George Lester The Victory Lease 9-28 Football in the Thirties 9-16 The Entrepreneurs 9-7 Playmates 9-1 Guest Column Remembering Grandma & Dado (Elmer F. and Clara B. Sanders) in Quemado, Texas by O. Polly (Ford) Wright 9-25 CARTOON by Roger T. Moore "Game Preserves" 9-1 FEATURES & ARCHITECTURE Texas Courthouses Hopkins County Courthouse - Text & Photos by Sam Fenstermacher 9-23 Liberty County Courthouse - Photos by John Troesser 9-10 Presidio County Courthouse - Photos by Ken Rudine and John Troesser 9-12 Drive-by Architecture The Kyle Block in Beaumont - One of the best examples of Zig Zag architecture in Texas 9-27 People Miss Rita of Beaumont's Dixie Hotel by John Troesser 9-26-04 The Philanthropic Madam of Oil City “Godfather of Beaumont” by Fred B. McKinley 9-16 Frank Yount and the Yount-Lee Oil Company, “the Godfather and Financial Gibraltar of Beaumont.” Texas Escapes Online Magazine Back Issues Subscribe to our Newsletter

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