History along the Way: Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers (Texas A&M Travel Guides),New

History along the Way: Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers (Texas A&M Travel Guides),New

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Texans love stories, and the 15,000 roadside markers along the states highways and byways testify to the abundance of tales to tell. History along the Way recounts the narratives behind and beyond more than one hundred Texas roadside markers.Peopled with colorful charactersa national leader of Camp Fire Girls, an army engineer who mapped the Republic of Texas frontier, a hunter of mammoth bones, a ragtime composer, civil rights leaders, and an iconic rock star, among othersthe book gives readers an intriguing and expanded look at the details, challenges, and lives commemorated by the words cast in metal on these wayside markers scattered across the Lone Star landscape.Also recounted in History along the Way are the stories of historic structures (from roadside architecture and elaborate West Texas hotels to university Old Mains and country schoolhouses of Gillespie County), engineering features (the Hidalgo Pumphouse in South Texas and the Rainbow Bridge in East Texas), and even town mascots (a jackrabbit, a mule, and a prairie dog). Accompanied by helpful maps, colorful photographs, and informative sidebars, History along the Way is guaranteed to inform, amuse, and intrigue.Every part of Texas gets a visit in this anthology of select sites, making it easy for travelersboth the armchair and touring varietiesto enjoy and learn about the fascinating nooks and crannies of history captured in all their variety by the roadside markers of Texas.

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