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Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-15-06

Martindale

Flo | Hubbard

Tehuacana 8-12-06
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson &
Research Library, Archive Division, Louisianna Secretary of State.

Roznov Photos courtesy Greg & Louisa Halamicek Stone 8-30-06

Talco

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-18-06

Koockville

Click | Harper | Mumford

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-4-06

Westminster

Shelbyville

Waskom

Photos courtesy Ken Rudine

Estelline 8-5-06

Hedley 8-10-06

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TEXAS GHOST TOWNS 362

Mariscal Mine Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone 8-11-06
"Deep inside" Big Bend National Park on Mariscal Mountain. A National Register Historic District.

Hovey Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone 8-11-06

Newgulf Photos courtesy Lauren Meyers

Landergin Photo courtesy Ken Rudine 8-5-06

Washburn Photo courtesy Ken Rudine 8-5-06

Weldon, Texas 8-9-06
Vintage photos courtesy Marty Cash

Eliasville 8-9-06
Vintage photos courtesy James D. Allen & Marty Cash

Medicine Mound Photo courtesy Ken Rudine 8-7-06

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TEXAS FEATURES • TEXAS TRIPS

PEOPLE

Strap Buckner: The Tallest of Tall Texas Tales by Maggie Van Ostrand 8-16-06
On library shelves, hidden among stories about Texas Legends of whom there are countless numbers, the least written about yet the biggest is that of Aylett C. "Strap" Buckner...

Texas Outlaw Kid Murray by Mike Cox 8-10-06
Texas' least-known outlaw, newspapers dubbed him "Kid" Murray.

GHOSTS

Ghost of Nicaragua Smith Still Haunts Graveyard by W. T. Block Jr. 8-14-06

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TEXAS ARCHITECTURE • IMAGES 10,000

Billy Smith Texas Theater Photo Collection 8-20-06

Series Four

Series Five

Dallas

Fort Worth

Rusk Footbridge 8-17-06
Photo courtesy Robert Grimes

Nelson's Drug Store 8-9-06
Photo courtesy Marty Cash

To Build a House II by C. F. Eckhardt 8-9-06
Adobe Houses
"...Indians did not build in adobe. Adobe was brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Adobe is mud brick, made with mud and straw-the same bricks the Hebrews in Egypt were told to make without straw. Finding the right kind of dirt to make adobe from was sometimes tricky..."

To Build a House by C. F. Eckhardt 8-2-06
Texas Log Cabins and Log Houses
The first house a man might build, at least in East and Central Texas, was a log cabin. Log cabins, by the way, looked nothing like the log houses usually called 'log cabins' today. The most common size was 12" x 14", usually the logs were not dressed...

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US TRAVEL

COLUMNS

HISTORICAL • REGIONAL • TOPICAL COLUMNS

Archie P. McDonald "All Things Historical" Syndicated weekly in 40 newspapers
• Guinn Big Boy Williams 8-28-06
• High Sheriff of Henderson County 8-14-06

Bob Bowman "All Things Historical" Syndicated weekly in 40 newspapers
• The Burning House 8-21-06
• A Moving History 8-7-06

W. T. Block Jr. "Cannonball's Tales" Weekly
• Rev. Vitalus Quinon: Early Catholic Church Builder of Southeast Texas 8-28-06
• Depression was depressing, except brother's paddling 8-21-06
• Ghost of Nicaragua Smith Still Haunts Graveyard 8-14-06
• The Case of Beaumont's Missing Marble Corpse 8-7-06

Murray Montgomery "Lone Star Diary" Monthly. Syndicated in 5 newspapers
• A True Texas Woman

C. F. Eckhardt "Charley Eckhardt's Texas " Weekly
• Cowboy Life on a Small Spread 8-30-06
• The Coolerator 8-21-06
• To Sleep Tight 8-16-06
• To Build a House - II: Adobe Houses 8-9-06
• To Build a House: Log Cabins and Log Houses 8-2-06

Mike Cox "Texas Tales" Syndicated weekly in 7 newspapers
• Mother 8-30-06
• Disappearing Cows 8-25-06
• Texas City 1914 8-17-06
• Texas Outlaw Kid Murray 8-10-06
• Humble Fire 8-2-06

Delbert Trew "It's All Trew" Weekly. Amarillo Globe News
• What a smoker smokes can reveal personality 8-29-06
• Past can continue to serve the present 8-21-06
• Rollaway bed was favorite for sleeping, hiding 8-15-06
• Texas, Oklahoma line ever-shifting until 1930 8-8-06
• Water - then and now 8-1-06

Clay Coppedge "Letters from Central Texas" Biweekly
• In Praise of Texas Corn 8-22-06
• The Texas Longhorn: Shaped By Nature 8-7-06

Louise George "History by George" Monthly
• Every Sunday Morning

Dorothy Hamm "Words and Music" Monthly
• One of the Best Interviews I Never Did 8-5-06

HUMOR • OPINION COLUMNS

Maggie Van Ostrand "A Balloon in Cactus" National Syndicated Columnist
• Strap Buckner: The Tallest of Tall Texas Tales 8-16-06

Peary Perry "Letters From North America" Syndicated weekly in 80 newspapers
• Free Advice over German Beer 8-30-06
• How to Make a Million and Retire Early 8-25-06
• Eating Out 8-17-06
• Stop the Presses 8-10-06
• Man Should Not Live Alone 8-3-06

Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal "The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything" Biweekly
• The Truth About Love 8-15-06
• Found Time 8-1-06

MEMOIRS

George Lester Spunky Flat and Beyond Biweekly
• Quirky, Random Childhood Thoughts 8-15-06
• The Omen 8-1-06

N. Ray Maxie "Rambling Ray" Ark-La-Tex Biweekly
• Deadly Explosion in the Oilfield 8-17-06

CARTOONS • EDITOR • GUESTS

Roger T. Moore
8-2-06 • 8-10-06 • 8-17-06 • 8-22-06 • 8-30-06

Editor & Guest Columnists "They shoe horses, don't they?"
• Recollections of Talco During the Oil Boom by Robert Cowser 8-18-06
• Wings Over Notrees Texas by Mike Moore 8-7-06

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