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| Texas
Escapes Online Magazine
Historic Texas & Travel
September 2005 Issue |
| | Port
Isabel and The
Port Isabel Lighthouse
13 vintage photos courtesy Cruse Aviation and
The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection, Courtesy of The Center for American
History, The University of Texas at Austin |
| | Borger
22 vintage images
Photos courtesy Ken Sharpe Collection |
| | FEMA
or Frederick Funston by John Troesser
Different Approaches to
Disaster
One Man vs the Search for a Few Good Bureaucrats
Major
General Frederick Funston of Iola, Kansas
1865-1916 |
| | Patrolling
the Mexican Border by Air
Government and Private Enterprise Working Together
Cruse Aviation in
the late 40s and early 50s
by John Troesser, Photos courtesy Cruse Aviation |
|
Oasis
Gas Station is Gone
Update
"Having
never pumped a pint, let alone a gallon of gasoline, this station-that-never-was
has become our symbol for a particular period in Texas history." |
| | People
Melungeon-Texans
by John Troesser
"The name has been said to be a corruption of
French for ..."The
Osburn Saga by Caroll Osburn Zerkle
Melungeons in Wizard Wells |
Ghosts
& Folklore Wild
Woman of the Navidad by Murray Montgomery
"The Navidad isn’t
really much of a river, as rivers go – it’s not very famous and can’t be compared
to the stunning Guadalupe or majestic Colorado, when it comes to beauty. But the
little old Navidad just might have a claim to fame that the others can’t equal.
You see, the Navidad has a past of mysterious and wild creatures, of the two-legged
variety, living along its winding path."
More
new |
Orla,
Texas by Michael E. Beckham 9-17-05
Bubba's Bus Route and the Day the Water Tank Fell The
Eagle Befriends the Stork
by John Troesser 9-10-05
Port Arthur's
legend of F. B. Wright, A Hurricane StoryIn
Its Own Way by
Kathleene S. Baker 9-4-05
"... After
living through a real-life nightmare, they were smiling! Everything is beautiful
- in it’s own way…"
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HISTORICAL
"All Things Historical"
ARCHIE P. McDONALD
SFASU
9-28-05
"Twenty-three Reasons Why
The Stephen F. Austin State Normal Ought to be Located at Nacogdoches."The
Other Babe 9-11-05
"Babe" Didrikson, the
outstanding woman athlete of the twentieth century.
BOB
BOWMAN
A
Steamboat’s Tale 9-18-05
"Lying in the Trinity River at Parker’s Bluff, near Palestine, a cluster
of remnants from an old sidewheeler steamboat serve as reminders of an era when
cotton was king in much of East Texas...."Two
Courthouse Fires 9-5-05
"...
the little-known story of two courthouse fires in Trinity County, one of the rowdiest
of our early counties..."
"Texas Tales"
MIKE COX
Circus
9-29-05
Gainesville Community Circus
Outlaw
Letter 9-20-05
An outlaw's love letter in
1878Missing
Coat 9-15-05
"Third-term Sterling
County Sheriff S.T. Wood..."Galveston
1900 9-8-05Lady
Doc 9-1-05
Dr. Sofie Herzog, first female
surgeon in Texas
"Lone Star Diary"
MURRAY
MONTGOMERYWild
Woman of the Navidad 9-13-05
REGIONAL
"It's All Trew"
DELBERT
TREWEncounters
of the outhouse kind make great family reunion tales 9-17-05
"Letters From Central Texas"
CLAY
COPPEDGEBird's
Creek 9-21-05
"Sometimes history remembers
the marksman and other times it's the victim whose name attaches itself to historical
immortality. The deciding factor is who writes the history, and the history of
the Old West was not written by the Indians..." | HUMOR
& OPINION
"A Balloon In Cactus"
MAGGIE VAN OSTRAND
When
Money Talks, Martha Listens 9-19-05
"...
Where once the phrase "integrated partners" referred to people who married somebody
from a different race, it now means products used within a film, television show
or sporting event...."Looking
for Charley 9-12-05
"My friend Charley
is about 45 and he's lived in New Orleans a long time, though he wasn't born there..."
"Letters From North America"
PEARY
PERRY
How
I have abused my cheese all of my life 9-29-05Proper
Planning 9-14-05
"For several weeks
after 9/11 I don’t think anyone who wrote a column could find anything humorous
to expound upon. The same feeling is going around since the hurricane along the
Gulf Coast..." Katrina
9-2-05
"The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything"
ELIZABETH
BUSSEY SOWDAL
Be
Prepared! 9-14-05
"It is very hard,
in the face of our recent national disaster, to come up with anything funny to
write about – and it almost feels like the wrong thing to do..."Finger
Lickin’ Good 9-1-05
"It must be awfully
hard to be the youngest child. I have been missing my brother who moved recently
to Arizona, and that has made me remember all kinds of things about growing up
with him..."
"Stumbling Forward"
JOHN GOSSELINK
Snakes
or Having a Hissing Fit 9-1-05
“We have nothing to fear except fear itself, and snakes..."
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| MEMOIR |
"Spunky
Flat and Beyond"
GEORGE LESTER
Mr.
Know-It-All 9-15-05
Grease
9-1-05
"...Our farm was a featureless plain
except for the creek bottom with its tall trees and cool shady areas along the
sparse stream. Down there, we discovered the delicacy of crawdad tails..." | "Rambling
Ray"
N. RAY MAXIE
The
Unforgettable Lightening Bolt 9-15-05Is
Your Mule for Sale? 9-1-05
"This little
story came to me several years ago straight from the mouth of an elderly and very
prominent Ark-La-Tex area Baptist preacher..." |
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