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September
2011 Issue
For people who like this sort of thing
This is the sort of thing they
like. |
| Vintage
Photos Myself
in the Texas Badlands Feature
The
Best Mule-Drawn Machine Gun Outfit in Texas 1923
Old photos of 230 mile trip
from Marfa to Del Rio via Longfellow and Comstock. Courtesy Scheibal Collection |
| Texas
History | People Texas
Filibusters by Jeffery Robenalt
Although
the Filibusters were unsuccessful in gaining independence for Texas, reports of
their activities in newspapers and periodicals all across the country brought
the vast land of Texas to the forefront of American thought and encouraged countless
settlers to pull up stakes and journey to the new land of promise, paving the
way for the era of the Texas Empresarios. |
Famous
Tree
Flora’s
Tree by Mike Cox
9-29-11
The
giant pecan, which still stands outside Helen Bentley’s house in Fort Davis, grew
from a sapling planted in 1873. |
| CourthouseHarris
County Courthouse by Terry Jeanson
9-28-11
Ghost
The
Ghost of Thurber by Bob Hopkins 9-28-11
“If
people say that I didn’t see a ghost, you tell em to come see me! I saw it with
my own two eyes and I know what I saw.” | Columns
Centennial
Monuments by Bob Bowman 9-25-11
In
1936, as Texas marked the centennial of its fight for independence from Mexico,
hundreds of granite monuments were placed throughout the state to recognize significant
events, people, buildings and communities...Drought
and Skeleton by Mike Cox 9-22-11
...While
those 24 words read like someone’s recent Facebook post, they were written on
June 18, 1882 at Fort Clark... |
|
TownsCastell
Llano Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp & Erik Whetstone 9-21-11 Coesfield
Cooke Co GLO Vintage Map 9-21-11 Hurlwood
Lubbock Co No Photos 9-21-11Whitt
Parker Co GLO
Vintage Map 9-21-11 |
ColumnAn
East Texas Psychic by Robert G. Cowser 9-20-11
Before
I ever heard or read the word psychic, I heard of a man with psychic powers. He
lived on a farm near Mt. Vernon during the years of the Great Depression...Every
tub must stand on its own bottom 9-20-11
During
research for my articles, I run across many quotes that strike a chord...
CartoonBuck
Naked by Roger T.
Moore 9-20-11 |
| Ghost
TownJellico
Tarrant Co Old photo courtesy Anelle Kloski 9-20-11
Town
Barstow
Ward Co Photos courtesy
Barclay Gibson 9-19-11 |
ColumnAmerica's
Third Largest Fire by Mike Cox 9-15-11
John
Cross had the day off that afternoon, March 21, 1916... About a mile from downtown
Paris, a thriving North Texas city of 12,000-plus, Cross heard the Central Station
fire bell... |
| Ghost
TownsCamp
Air Mason Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & William Beauchamp
9-12-11 Broome
Sterling Co No Photos Vintage map TGLO 9-11-11Alabama
Houston Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 9-10-11 |
ColumnA
sawmill ghost town by Bob Bowman 9-12-11
Aldridge
is perhaps the most isolated and desolate of East Texas’ ghost towns--a somnolent
cluster of weathered concrete and brick ruins wrapped in the growth of a Neches
River forest.
TownLa
Rosita Duval Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 9-12-11 |
| Ghost
Downes-Aldrich
Haunted House by
Dana Goolsby 9-10-11
The
Eastlake Victorian style house was home to some of the first settlers in Crockett,
who reportedly may not have fully vacated the premises... |
Columns
Mystery
of Lavaca River cannon remains unsolved by Murray Montgomery 9-9-11
"I’ve
written about the cannon more than once... that original column brought folks
out of the woodwork providing me with more information than I could ever have
imagined..."Harvey
Hughes’ Short Literary Career by Mike Cox 9-8-11
Like
most elected officials, Brewster County Sheriff E.E. Townsend received a fair
amount of correspondence, from postcards bearing descriptions of wanted felons
to legal papers to magazines, but the package that arrived from San Antonio that
day in March 1923 ranked as the most unusual piece of mail he ever received...
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| FortFort
Gates Coryell Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 9-8-11
TownFort
Gates Coryell Co No Photos 9-7-11 |
| TownVance
Real Co Photos courtesy Mary M. Meszaros 9-7-11
ColumnCotton
Gottlob and Coach Red Pierce Were a Heck of a Team by Bill Cherry
9-7-11
"A
baseball player from Galveston’s Ball High, Don “Cotton” Gottlob, talked Sam Houston
State Teachers College’s coach, Paul “Red” Pierce, into letting him try out for
quarterback..." |
| TownBarnhart
Irion Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & Erik Whetstone 9-6-11
Column
Old
towns gone, not forgotten by Delbert Trew 9-6-11
As
I gather information about the past, I am amazed that today’s towns and communities
often had different names in the past. It seems each generation dubbed the sites
with names they preferred over the old names. Here are a few samples of such changes
about an area we pass through each time we go towards Denver and on north... |
| Ghost
TownDialville
Cherokee Co Old Photos courtesy Dennis Dickerson 9-5-11 |
ColumnsA
Historic County by Bob Bowman 9-5-11
One
of my favorite rural counties in East Texas celebrated its 140th anniversary this
year. Named for the 1836 battle which ended the Texas revolution against Mexico,
San Jacinto County... Comancheros
by Clay Coppedge 9-4-11
At
a time when few people dared to traverse the forbidding Llano Estacado on the
South Plains of Texas, a group of people known to history as the Comancheros made
quite a living in the region.
TownsPrairie
Hill Limestone Co No Photos 9-4-11Prairie
Hill Washington Co No Photos 9-4-11Dell
City Hudspeth Co 8-31-11 |
| FortFort
Lincoln Medina Co
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 9-2-11
ColumnThe
White Wing Hotel by Mike Cox
9-1-11
Born
with great expectations in the optimistic post-World War II days, death came 63
years later amid gangs and drug dealers. Only this was a brick and mortar Baby
Boomer, not a person. | |
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