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Texas Travel Texas
History
November
2006 Issue
For
people who like this sort of thing
This is the sort of thing they like. |
| RAILROADSRailroad
Interlocking Towers of Texas
by
Jim King 11-10-06
Ask someone to recall railroad
buildings from their childhood memories and they are likely to mention a depot
or perhaps a roundhouse. But there was another railroad building very common across
Texas: the railroad tower. Most people referred to these as "signal towers" or
"switch towers"... |
| The
Little Engine That Couldn't: The Fredericksburg & Northern Railroad by
C. F. Eckhardt 11-15-06
"... Even after
the War, with much improved roads and a much lessened Indian problem, it still
took freight wagons the better part of a week to travel from San Antonio to Fredericksburg...
The people north and west of San Antonio wanted and needed a railroad..."
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MUSIC
Kopperl,
Bosque County, Texas
by Steven Fromholz 11-1-06
I was neither
born nor reared in the very small town of Kopperl, Bosque County, Texas, but as
we Texans say, "Mom 'n 'em were."...
(The background history upon which Steven
Fromholz's song, Texas Trilogy is based.)Steven
Fromholz Bio 11-1-06 |
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Kim
Stanley: Daughter of Texas
by Maggie Van Ostrand 11-4-06
She didn't
have Renee Zellweger's pout, couldn't ride like Dale Evans, and never golfed like
Babe Didrikson Zaharias. She couldn't sing like Janis Joplin either, and she was
not really pretty like Donna Reed, but Kim Stanley was probably the greatest American
actress who ever lived. Funny thing is, Kim Stanley told everyone she was a Texan,
and said it so many times and so well, people believed her, even genuine Texans
like Horton Foote of Wharton... |
| | TRIPS
Return
to San Jacinto after 67 Years
by Ken Rudine 11-1-06
"Where Buffalo
Bayou meets the San Jacinto River is the hallowed battleground where Texas's Independence
was won from Mexico in 1836. Between 1936 and 1939, a 570 foot tall obelisk was
constructed to honor those men and memorialize their victory. |
| | Kilgore
Photo courtesy Sam Fenstermacher |
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Skellytown
Photos courtesy Roy Saffel 11-20-06Shamrock
Photo Courtesy
Dana Forrester 11-16-06 |
Recommended
Holiday Trip:
Holiday
Trail of Lights
by Bob Bowman
Includes Kilgore, Marshall and
Jefferson in East Texas
and Natchitoches and Shreveport in Louisiana |
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