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and Columnists"Let
every fellow tell his tale about."
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HISTORY,
TRAVEL, REGIONAL COLUMNS |
 | Bob
Bowman Weekly.
Syndicated in 70 newspapers
"Bob
Bowman's East Texas" columns >
• Bonnie
and Clyde 6-29-09
During their Depression-era
crime wave between 1931 and 1934, Bonnie and Clyde were suspected of killing at
least twelve people, including nine peace officers. Their victims fell in Texas,
Arkansas and Louisiana...
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 | Murray
Montgomery Monthly.
Syndicated in 5 newspapers
"Lone
Star Diary" columns >
• Hallettsville
was booming in the early 1900s 3-17-09
With
the construction of a new light system in the summer of 1900, Hallettsville started
a nine-year run of development that included the construction of new buildings,
the beginning of new businesses, and renovations to existing structures...
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 | C.
F. Eckhardt Monthly.
"Charley Eckhardt's Texas
" columns >
• The
Snively Expedition 5-29-09
Jacob Snively was
either a con-man, a fool, or probably the unluckiest man on earth. It’s hard to
tell which. He claimed to be a mining man who’d prospected the Sierra Madres.
He also claimed he’d found one of the richest gold mines on the continent in the
mountains below El Paso, on the Texas side of the Rio Grande...
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 | Mike
Cox Weekly. Syndicated
in 11 newspapers
"Texas
Tales" columns >
• July
4, 1894 7-2-09
The nation’s economy was mired
in a recession and federal troops had been sent to Chicago to prevent further
violence associated with a national railroad strike, but neither situation dulled
the patriotism of Texans on July 4, 1894.
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Delbert Trew Weekly.
Amarillo Globe-Sun
"It's
All Trew" columns >
• Younger
generation needs to be more frugal 6-23-09
I
reckon I will receive some flak over this column as I almost never editorialize
about current problems, religion or politics. So be it. Since my remarks are based
on history and the parallels of The Great Depression and today, here goes...
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more |
 | Byron
Browne Monthly
NEW COLUMNIST
"Notes From Over Here"
columns >
• Hitting
the Marc 7-1-09
The wine industry in Texas
is blooming. The Texas Agriculture Department lists almost 120 wineries in the
state and reports that as of 2007, Texas is this country’s 5th largest producer
of grapes and wine. For anyone who has traveled to west Texas or the Hill Country...
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 | N.
Ray Maxie Ark-La-Tex
Monthly
"Rambling
Ray" columns >
• Broken
Chain: Mended Heart 7-1-09
When school was
dismissed each day, I rode “Ole Yellow”, the big yellow bus about 15 miles to
get home. We must have made 18 to 20 stops throughout the countryside, finally
coming to the rural “back country” oilfield road leading to the Maxie house...
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An
Introduction of Two Persons 3-9-09
From
The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years
After
“Make the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have been
in it.” |
"If
you've heard this one before, dont' stop me,
because I want to hear it again."
- Waco Historian Roger Norman Conger
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