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JANUARY 2008 Issue
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TEXAS TOWNS - Search 1779 Texas Towns >

How to Explore a Small Town 1-9-08
Helpful Tips So You Won’t Feel You've Missed Anything
By Johnny Stucco

Memphis Hall Co 1-15-08
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels, Barclay Gibson & Terry Jeanson

Farmersville Collin Co 1-2-08
Photos courtesy Mike Price & Stephen Michaels

Photos Courtesy Barclay Gibson

Troup Smith Co 1-8-08

Brushy Creek Anderson Co 1-8-08

Placid McCulloch Co 1-21-08

Mercury McCulloch Co 1-21-08

Fife McCulloch Co 1-21-08

Photos Courtesy Barclay Gibson

Dawson Navarro Co 1-5-08

Noonday Smith Co 1-5-08

Blackjack Smith Co 1-5-08

Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

Stratford Sherman Co 1-16-08

Claude Armstrong Co 1-17-08

Bracken Comal Co 1-12-08

Carrollton Dallas, Denton & Collin Co 12-28-07

Addison Dallas & Collin Co1-6-08

Live Oak Bexar Co 1-13-08

Photos Courtesy Mike Price

Gainesville Cooke Co 1-13-07

Allen Collin Co 1-7-08

Grand Saline Van Zandt Co 1-18-08

Richardson Dallas & Collin Co 1-18-08

Sachse Dallas & Collin Co 1-21-08

Newcastle Young Co 1-4-08

Dodd City Fannin Co 1-13-07

Bailey Fannin Co 1-13-07

Lucas Collin Co 1-7-08

Alba Wood Co 1-7-08

Bowie Montague Co 1-6-08

Photos Courtesy Mike Price, Lexie Nichols & Jordan Gibson

Fort Belknap Young Co 1-4-08

Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson

Pampa Gray Co 1-12-08

Antelope Jack Co 1-4-08 No Photos

Briscoe Wheeler Co 1-4-08 No Photos

Photos courtesy Tom Jones & Terry Jeanson

Panhandle Carson Co
Photo courtesy Jacinto Guevara

Lytle Atascosa Co 1-3-08
Photos courtesy Mildred L Brown

New Waverly Walker Co 1-16-08

Coldspring San Jacinto Co 1-16-08

Photos Courtesy Ernie Wymer

Tow Llano Co 1-4-08

Prairie Mountain Llano Co 1-15-08

Kingsland Llano Co

TE Photos

Currie Navarro Co 1-4-08

Willis Montgomery Co 1-16-08

Utley Bastrop Co 1-18-08

Phelps Walker Co 1-28-08

Photos courtesy Ken Rudine

Roans Prairie Grimes Co 1-7-08

TEXAS GHOST TOWNS - Search 456 Ghost Towns >

Photos Courtesy Barclay Gibson

East Sweden McCulloch Co 1-6-08

Copperas Kimble Co 1-8-08

Shumla Val Verde Co 1-18-08 No photos

Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

Wetmore Bexar Co 1-23-08

Photos courtesy Mr. & Mrs. Sayles

Iatan Mitchell Co 1-18-08

Photo courtesy Mike Price

Hagerman Grayson Co 1-13-08

Photo courtesy Howard Ivy

Lobo Culberson Co 1-6-08

Photos courtesy Mildred L Brown

Swartwout Polk Co 1-16-08

TEXAS FEATURES • TEXAS TRIPS

FOOD

This Little Piggy Stayed Home by Linda-Kirkpatrick 1-5-08
This story is about the important but disgusting details of butchering the ill fated little pig and preparing the meat for the table. It is not for the faint of heart...

SPECIAL FEATURE

Prairie Precisionism 1-1-08
or How Geometry is done in Texas
By Brewster Hudspeth

THEY SHOE HORSES, DON'T THEY?

J. Frank Dobie and Colonel Jack Jenkins by Mel Brown 1-1-08
Two Texans become friends in War-torn England
"The two images have never before been published or even seen outside Jack Jenkins' family and I would like to share them - and the story behind them - with Texas Escapes' readers." - Mel Brown

CITY SIDEWALKS

Austin Sidewalks: Maufrais 1-4-08
by Rob Hafernik

COTTON

Cotton Gins in Texas 12-31-07
The William Beauchamp Collection - Nine postcards

CEMETERIES

Belknap Cemetery 1-4-08
Photos Courtesy Lexie Nichols & Jordan Gibson

TEXAS ARCHITECTURE • IMAGES > Over 12,000 Images

BRIDGES
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Pecos River Through Truss Bridge, Imperial 1-1-08

East Sweden Pony Truss Bridge 1-6-08

Llano River Roy Inks Bridge 1-17-08

Llano Railroad Through Truss Bridge 1-17-08

Winchell Bridge 1-17-08
By Judy McBride

COURTHOUSES
Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson

Travis County Courthouse 12-29-07

Frio County Courthouse 1-11-07

Webb County Courthouse 1-12-08

Gray County Courthouse 1-12-08

McLennan County Courthouse 1-23-08

Hall County Courthouse 1-15-07
Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson & Stephen Michaels

VINTAGE PHOTOS

Sierra Blanca 1-14-08
Searching for Cupid Cave:
A Taste of Life in 1917 Sierra Blanca
Courtesy Eldon M. Holman

Carbon 1-3-08
Photos courtesy Webb Jordan

SCHOOLHOUSES
Photos courtesy Stephen Taylor

Placid School 1-22-08

Brady South Ward School 1-22-08

SIGNS

Dawson Ghost Signs 1-5-08
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

THEN AND NOW

Gainesville's Turner Hotel 1-13-07
Photos Courtesy Mike Price

Llano Dam 1-17-08
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & rootsweb.com

THEATRES

Palace Theatre, Littlefield 1-14-08

COLUMNS

TEXAS HISTORICAL • REGIONAL • TOPICAL COLUMNS

Archie P. McDonald "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 70 newspapers

Kirby Lumber Company 1-21-08

Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday 1-7-08

Bob Bowman "All Things Historical" Syndicated in 70 newspapers

The “Indian” bootlegger 1-28-08

History and sawmill tokens 1-14-08

Gospel music 1-2-08

Murray Montgomery "Lone Star Diary" Syndicated in 5 newspapers

W. T. Block Jr. "Cannonball's Tales"

C. F. Eckhardt "Charley Eckhardt's Texas "

The Wail of the Wampus Cat 1-3-08

Mike Cox "Texas Tales" Syndicated in 11 newspapers

Granite 1-31-08

Buffalo Bill 1-24-08

Shumla 1-18-08

Travel Trailers 1-9-08

Suddenly Silly 1-3-08

Delbert Trew "It's All Trew" Amarillo Globe News

Indian scouts helped end the Indian wars 1-31-08

Horse had to run its course 1-22-08

Captain William Coe lived criminal highlife 1-16-08

Orphans find homes in West 1-8-08

Clay Coppedge "Letters from Central Texas"

Bill Cherry "Bill Cherry's Galveston Memories"

No One Who Truly Knows the Mansion Would Ever Call It The Open Gates 1-23-08

Linda-Kirkpatrick "Somewhere in the West"

This Little Piggy Stayed Home - Part Two of the Pig Trilogy 1-5-08

HUMOR • OPINION COLUMNS

Maggie Van Ostrand "A Balloon in Cactus" National Syndicated Columnist

Joaquin Murrieta, Robin Hood or Just Plain Hood? 1-5-08

Peary Perry "Letters From North America" Syndicated in 80 newspapers

Public Servant 1-31-08

Where are you Benny Goodenberger 1-23-08

Insurance 1-16-08

A Pregnant Pause for Reflection 1-9-08

Vote 1-3-08

Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal "The Girl Detective's Theory of Everything"

Giiiii-Cher Popcorn 1-28-08

Gael Montana "The View from Under the Bus"

TEXAS MEMOIRS

N. Ray Maxie "Rambling Ray" Ark-La-Tex

Running Down A Road Hog 1-1-08

TEXAS CARTOONS • EDITOR • GUESTS

Roger T. Moore

1-3-08 | 1-8-08 | 1-16-08 | 1-22-08 | 1-31-08 |

Editor & Guest Columnists "They shoe horses, don't they?"

Ina Knowles Has a Brush With Bonnie and Clyde by Lois Zook Wauson 1-15-08

Remembering Claire Perry by Robert Cowser 1-15-08

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