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Texas Travel • Texas History
July 2008 Issue
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TEXAS TOWNS - Browse 1908 Texas Towns >

TOWNS
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

Hillsboro Hill Co 7-7-08

Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley

Homer Angelina Co 7-21-08

Photos courtesy Brett Christoffel

Whitewright Grayson Co 7-3-08

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Marathon Brewster Co 7-24-08

Snook Burleson Co 7-30-08

Stonewall Gillespie Co 7-28-08

Scroggins Franklin Co 7-28-08

Bloomington Victoria Co 7-21-08

Structure Williamson Co 7-21-08

Wallis Austin Co 7-10-08

Rochelle McCulloch Co 7-3-08

Adamsville Lampasas Co 6-26-08
Adamsville Through Truss Bridge

Arneckeville DeWitt Co 6-26-08

Arthur City Lamar Co 6-30-08

TE Photos

Wallisville Chambers Co 7-30-08

Adina Lee Co 6-26-08

Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson

Dalhart Dallam Co 7-3-08

Photos courtesy Jordan Gibson

Squeezepenny Collin Co

No Photos

Aiken Shelby Co 6-26-08

Alfred Jim Wells 6-26-08

Allison Wheeler Co 6-26-08

Ames Liberty Co 6-30-08

Amherst Lamar Co 6-30-08

Apple Springs Trinity Co 6-30-08

Appleby Nacogdoches Co 6-26-08

Argyle Denton Co 6-26-08

Arroyo City Cameron Co 6-30-08

Artesia Wells La Salle 6-26-08

Avery Red River Co 6-30-08

Avondale Tarrant Co 6-30-08
More New - See MARCH / APRIL 2008 ISSUE

TEXAS GHOST TOWNS - Browse 473 Ghost Towns >

The Story of Indianola by Maggie Van Ostrand 6-30-08

Jonesville Angelina Co Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley 7-21-08

Buena Vista Shelby Co No Photos 7-21-08
More New - See MAY / JUNE 2008 ISSUE

TEXAS FEATURES • TEXAS TRIPS

SPLASH ACROSS TEXAS
Excerpted from "Splash Across Texas", 1999
by Chandra Moira Beal

Lady Bird Lake, formerly Town Lake, Austin 7-25-08

Krause Springs 6-30-08

Bull Creek, Austin 7-17-08

Lake Belton 7-17-08

Llano River 7-17-08

TEXAS CENTENNIAL
By Sarah Reveley:

Alamo Museum 7-3-08

Casa Mañana, Fort Worth 7-21-08

McMahan's Chapel 7-28-08

PEOPLE

Mary Ann Goodnight and the Texas State Bison Herd by Linda Kirkpatrick 7-11-08
Their story began many, many years ago and when you know it your heart will fill with the same pride that you get at you watch Old Glory waving in the breeze.
Photos courtesy Ken Rudine & Stephen Michaels

Former slave recalls memories of old Lavaca County by Murray Montgomery 7-7-08

Mr. Goss and Belmont’s Goss Barbeque by John Troesser 7-24-08

Terry's Texas Rangers by Mike Cox 7-3-08
"The Texans who rode with the Terry and Lubbock, and later under Col. John A. Wharton, paid a high price for their beliefs. Of 1,700 who served in the regiment, the 8th Texas consisted of only 150 men by the end of the war."

GHOSTS

The Legend Of Bone Hill by Bob Bowman 7-7-08
Bone Hill, a landmark standing about four miles northeast of Center, reportedly got its name from a herd of cattle who died atop the mill, leaving their bones to whiten in the East Texas sun. But, as with all legends, there’s more to the story...