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January 2013 Issue
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Ghost Towns

Texon Reagan Co Photos courtesy AnnaMarie Adams 1-16-13

Medicine Mound Hardeman Co Recent photos courtesy Clay Isbell 1-6-13

People

Angel of Goliad by Murray Montgomery Photos courtesy sarah Reveley 1-2-13

Columns

Those strange town names by Bob Bowman 1-29-13
While some early East Texans named their towns for families, their hometowns or landmarks, othes were a tad more creative...

Dr. Blair's Mobile Pharmacy by Mike Cox 1-24-13
With the cotton baled and money still in the pockets of hard-working farmers, every November the “doctor” and his son worked a familiar circuit in North Texas...
WWII

Till Death Do Us Part by David Knape 1-22-13

Bridges

Moore's Crossing Bridge, Austin, Texas by Barclay Gibson 1-19-13

Carpenter's Bluff Grayson Co Photos courtesy Robin Jett 1-22-13

Columns

Jan 25, 1878 - UFO Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 1-21-13

Fort Brown: A refuge from Indian attacks by Bob Bowman 1-20-13
In early East Texas, dozens of forts were built by settlers to provide a safe and sturdy refuge from Indian attacks. One such fort stood in north central Houston County where Indian attacks were common.

Forgetfulness by David Knape 1-19-13

Sugarland Express by Murray Montgomery 1-18-13
Movie star Goldie Hawn and actor Ben Johnson were in Belmont, Texas, in March of 1973, filming portions of the movie, "Sugarland Express."

Towns

Higginbotham Gaines Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 1-18-13

Belmont Gonzales Co Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley 1-18-13

Blackjack Shelby Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 1-17-13

Columns

Three Brothers Well Suited for Early Texas by Mike Cox 1-16-13
Years later, long after wild and wooly Texas had been saddle-broke and gentled up, what Frank Jackson remembered most about his youth along the frontier was his first pair of pants...

Sunrise by David Knape 1-16-13

Poer, Texas by David Knape 1-16-13

Jan 21, 1879 - Richard Hubbard Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 1-15-13

Towns

Poesta Bee Co Photo courtesy William Beauchamp 1-14-13

Poer Bowie Co 1-14-13

Pony Runnels Co 1-15-13

Columns

Yuccaing it Up In the Big Bend by Frances Giles 1-13-13
and The Ballad of Dagger Flats (a.k.a. The Adventures of Las Dos Francescas)

The Island’s Domestic Goddess by Bill Cherry 1-11-13

The Great Texas / British TV Hoax of 1953 Mike Cox 1-10-13
On the afternoon of Sept. 14, 1953, television viewers over a large area of England supposedly saw on their screens the test pattern and call letters of KLEE – a TV station located 4,860 miles away in Houston.

Marked Men David Knape 1-10-13

I Am Your Spam David Knape 1-10-13

Childhood Toys, Games, & Treasures by Bruce Martin 1-10-13

Birds

Coastal Birds of Texas by Ken Rudine 1-7-13
Column

Jan 7, 1899 - Bigfoot Wallace Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 1-7-13

Towns

Southland Garza Co Vintage photos courtesy Jim Spikes1-7-12
Ghost Towns

Pone Rusk Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 1-1-13

Irwin Rusk Co 1-2-13

Pylas Rusk Co 1-5-13

Columns

Trouble along the Rio Grande: The First Cortina War by Jeffrey Robenalt 1-5-13
With the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo on February 2, 1848, and the ending of the Mexican-American War, the official boundary between Texas and Mexico was established at the Rio Grande, leaving a large portion of the Cortina family land grant on the United States side of the border. The stage was now set for conflict.

Name That Lake Wanda Orton 1-5-13
A tale of two lakes in Chambers County

The Lady in the Parking Lot by Maggie Van Ostrand 1-5-13
I spotted her in the shopping center getting out of a white Mercedes convertible SLS. She was one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen. In - my - life...

Towns

Valley View Cooke Co Photos courtesy Mike Price & Bill Maughan 1-4-13

Palm Harbor Aransas Co 1-1-13

Columns

Pone, Texas by David Knape 1-4-13

It's Going Around by David Knape 1-3-13

Catching Weeds by David Knape 1-3-13

Frontier Journalism in Texas by Clay Coppedge 1-3-13
The people who started newspapers on the frontier weren’t a lot different from others who of that time and place...

Wichita Falls Falls for Flim Flam Brit by Mike Cox 1-2-13
When a crisp and proper gentleman who spoke with a classic British accent arrived and took a room at the city’s best hotel, word got around quickly...

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