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Exploring Texas History.


Exploring Texas History

Elaine L. Galit & Vikk Simmons

Republic of Texas Press

c/o Taylor Trade Publishing

4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706

www.rowman.com

1589792025 $18.95 1-800-275-8188

Exploring Texas History: Weekend Adventures is a travel guide for out-of-state vacationers and Texas residents alike. Offering amazing stories
This article is about the magazine. For the television show, see Amazing Stories (TV series)


Amazing Stories magazine, sometimes retitled Amazing Science Fiction
 of Texas history and themed travel adventures, Exploring Texas History guides the readers to destinations commemorating the settlement of Texas, the battle for independence, the Alamo Alamo

Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico.
, Buffalo Soldiers buffalo soldiers, name given to the African-American U.S. army regiments commissioned by Congress to patrol the American West after the Civil War. Consisting of two infantry and two cavalry regiments, they were the first such units chartered in peacetime. , shipwrecks This list of shipwrecks is of those ships whose have been located. Africa
East Africa
  • Globe Star grounded off Mombasa, Kenya in April 1973
  • H.M.S.
, cattle drives and more. Maps, recommended lodgings, black-and-white photographs, detailed notes and much more make Exploring Texas History a "must-have" for the Texas sightseer.
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Date:Feb 1, 2006
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