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Texas Trails: Ole Ringness

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Oct. 27, 2011 - The Norwegians didn't come to Texas in the same numbers that the Germans, Czechs and other Europeans did and so have not left the same indelible mark on the state as immigrants from other countries. One Norwegian who should have left a mark in the form of a patent that revolutionized agriculture did not do so, and exactly what happened to him remains an enduring mystery.
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Texas Trails: Venturing into Hell's Half Acre

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Oct. 20, 2011 - Nearly every frontier town worth its salt in sin had a section of town known as Hell's Half Acre. San Antonio had one, as did rowdy Tascosa. In Austin, the red light district was known as Guy Town. Waco had a part of town known as the Reservation, where all the vices were on full display, but segregated from the more respectable neighborhoods.

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Texas Trails: Frank Hamer's First Gun Fight

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Oct. 13, 2011 - Frank Hamer is best known to history and movie buffs for pursuing Bonnie and Clyde and setting the trap that resulted in their demise. He is generally portrayed as a serious, no-nonsense kind of guy, as would be expected. Once, when he was 16, he made a wisecrack to a man that he later had to kill because the man took Hamer seriously.
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Texas Trails: A Close Call in Camp Wood

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Oct. 6, 2011 - An airplane landed in the middle of the little community of Camp Creek in 1924, an event that was one of the biggest things to ever happen in that town, but one that went unnoticed by the world at large, mainly because nobody got hurt in the incident and nobody involved was famous. Not until years later did the story take on historic significance and become sort of a prelude for a piece of world history.
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Texas Trails: Creed Taylor is Texas History

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Sept. 29, 2011 - Given a chance to talk to anyone from Texas history, I would not pick Sam Houston, Davy Crockett or even Bigfoot Wallace. Instead, I would like to hear the stories of Creed Taylor because he saw more of the most interesting pieces of Texas history than anybody else. He was one of the fortunate few who grew up with Texas and one whose personal history most closely matches the state's.
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