Posts by Month: June, 2009
The Dallas Cowboys played their first game as a newly formed expansion team of the National Football...
On December 10, 1836 the first flag of Texas was approved by Sam Houston, then President of the Repu...
There are seven Air Force bases, four Army bases and three Navel bases in Texas. The military bases...
Texas' hill country has a lot of limestone in the area and the hills also have a lot of granite that...
On December 29, 1845, the Congress of the United States voted to admit Texas as a member of the Unit...
First to arrive in Texas were the Native Americans. About 1500 B.C., the settlers and Europeans star...
With more than 12 Native American Tribes in Texas, certain regions have more history than others. T...
Sam Donaldson, news anchor and reporter for ABC News, was born in El Paso, Texas in 1934. After atte...
In 1862, in a town named Comfort, Texas, lived people that had strong German roots. The people ther...
Texas is the second largest state in the United States measured by land area, second to Alaska. It ...
Flowers abound at the Wildseed Farms in Texas, located in the hill country just outside of Frederick...
John Neely Bryant was the first to survey the Dallas area in 1839. Bryant wanted to set up a tradin...
The Dallas Cowboys joined the National Football League in 1960 as an expansion team and have grown t...
The very large state of Texas has been, and still is, home to a vast number of American Indian tribe...
The Houston Astrodome is a famous sports stadium in Texas. It is an expansive domed structure, with...
The town of Fredericksburg, Texas was known as the home of Texas German because the German Immigrant...
A visit to Texas can be a journey though time. The history of Texas is rich and diverse. It is the o...
The vibrant historic city of San Antonio has changed ownership many times since Native Americans in...
It is believed that Texas was originally discovered by Spain. However, it must not be forgotten tha...
It is believed that indigenous people inhabited Texas around 10,000 BC. It was discovered by Europe...
Austin has one of the biggest Universities in Texas. The Texas University has nine universities in ...
Janis Lyn Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on January 19, 1943. While in her teens, she sang ...
Texas is an oil rich state, and the U.S. consumes most of the world's oil. Keeping oil production in...
As an American singer and songwriter, Buddy Holly shakes up America and Europe with his switch from ...
Spanish flags flew over the territory now known as Texas from 1230 to 1793. The first was of two li...
Fifteen flags have flown over Texas. The flag flying now over Texas, symbolizes its unique history....
Tanya Tucker was born in Seminole, Texas in 1958, and she wanted to be a country music singer when s...
Total oil production in the US reached a peak of about 10 million barrels a day in 1970. Nearly 40 y...
Texas has an interesting history in that it was part of or claimed by six countries during the perio...
Barbara Mandrell was found to be very talented at a very early age. She played for Patsy Cline who ...
B.J. Thomas (Billy Joe) was born on August 7, 1942 at his grandmother’s house in Hugo, Oklahoma. The...
A beautiful array of wildflowers can be enjoyed especially in the springtime. If you take a drive t...
Jim Reeves was born on August 20, 1923 in the small town of Galloway, Texas. Growing up, Jim was go...
The older generation can recognize and appreciate this name. The younger crowd might be clueless. ...
Although there have been a few teams around the United States who have tried to lay claim to being A...
Earnest Tubb was born in Crisp, Texas, which is now a ghost town. His father was a sharecropper on ...
James Robert (Bob) Wills was born on March 6th, 1905 in Kosse, Texas. He was an American Western swi...
Clint Black was born in 1962. He is an extremely talented singer, writer and instrumentalist. Black ...
The television series of Dallas marked the beginning of series TV. This program came on the air in 1...
Waterloo, the first capital of the Republic of Texas, is on the Colorado River. If you didn’t know ...
Texas offers a unique variety of training at its universities. Any university in the United States p...
San Antonio cuisine may lead to surprises for some visitors. The main type of cuisine here is San An...
Born on April 30, 1933 in Abbott Texas, Willie Hugh Nelson has become an icon in the country music s...
The San Antonio Spurs have been a powerhouse in the NBA for more than 10 years now. They are almost ...
With over 23 million visitors last year, San Antonio is Texas' most visited city. San Antonio airpo...
David Pace, the creator of Pace Piquante Sauce and founder of Pace Foods, grew up working in his fam...
The early Native American Tribes inhabiting the area we now know as Texas were extremely diverse in ...
One of the most remarkable WWII museums in Texas is the National WASP WWII Museum in Sweetwater, Tex...
Did you know that Texas is another state that is famous for its wineries? That’s right, Texas has ma...
Texas is still a great, big place to roam. Texas has much history that is recorded in newspapers an...
Everything is larger than life in Texas, or so it has been said; therefore, you’d expect Texas resta...
Patrick Swayze is a well know actor, singer, songwriter, and dancer, who hales from the great State ...
When the average Texan thinks of "Native Americans" or "Indians" as the older generation calls them,...
Jiles Perry Richardson, AKA The Big Bopper, was a disc jockey, singer, and songwriter. Although his ...
The hit television show Dallas, was one of the longest running shows on prime time television in Ame...
Kenny Rogers was born in Houston, Texas on August 21, 1938. He grew up in a poor area of Houston and...
Tanya Tucker's full name is Tanya Denise Tucker. She was born on October 10, 1956 in Texas. She was ...
There are 5 Early Texas Documents that have a prominent place in the rich History of Texas. First i...
The Dallas Cowboys started out knowing what they wanted and went for it. This is how they have play...
Waylon Jennings was born in the west Texas town of Littlefield, on June 15th, 1937. He was a multita...
Kenny Rogers was born in Texas in August of 1938. Kenny’s music career started in the 1950s. He sang...
Texas has always had a rich Native American influence and culture running through its long history. ...
Austin is the Texas state capital and is the heart of Texas music. Austin City Limits is the long-ru...
The San Antonio Spurs are located in San Antonio, Texas and are a professional basketball team which...
The nickname for Texas is the "Lonestar State" and it is the only state that was a republic before b...
On August 18, 1952 Patrick Wayne Swayze was born in Houston, Texas. Patrick Swayze is a very talente...
The state of Texas is known for its incredible size and terrific professional sports teams and the D...
As many may know, Texas was a republic before it joined the U.S. and had several presidents. David ...
The San Jacinto Monument commemorates one of the most decisive battles ever fought. It is a fact th...
Texas is important to the United States for the Military installations that are maintained there. Th...
People all over the United States, especially in Texas, have the same question on their minds; why d...
Ask almost anyone in the world and they know Texas, and most know about the Alamo. Texas has a very...
The amusement park call Six Flags was originally founded and opened in 1961 with its primary headqua...
The rich history of Texas began in 1519, when Alonso Alverez de Penida, a Spaniard, discovered the r...
The Lone Star State of Texas proclaims a rich and diverse history, as witnessed by its six different...
Texas is one of the few states of several different flags. There are 5 flags to be exact, and each ...
The Native American tribes in Texas were many and diverse. The Bidai, the first known to the Europe...
“Austin” was first settled in the 1830's along the banks of the Colorado river, and was named Waterl...
The Lone Star State of Texas was the home to several Native American tribes before English colonists...
On October 17th, 1960, the city of Houston was awarded a professional baseball franchise by National...
Chuck Norris was not raised a Texan, an athlete or with much popularity. He was named after his fat...
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