Central Texas Tales (American Chronicles)

Synopsis

Central Texas Is An Area As Diverse Culturally As It Is Geographically. Bordered By Hill Country In The West, Green Farmland In The East And Waco And New Braunfels In The North And South, This Area Has Drawn Settlers From Around The Globe For Over Two Centuries, Leaving Their Mark And Their Stories Along The Way. From A Surprising Story Of Nineteenth-century Psych Ops At Fort Mason And What Really Happened To Bevo, The Ut Longhorn, In 1920 To Mrs. Ross's Croghan Cobbler Recipe And Rumors Of A Lone Star Visit By Old Abe Himself, Historian Mike Cox Regales Readers With Over Fifty Stories About The Fascinating People, History And Places Of Middle Texas.--amazon.com. Indians -- Sarah's Story -- Psychological Warfare On The Frontier -- Steven Williamson's Lost Grave -- The Civil War -- The Battle Of Bull Creek -- Shropshire's Castle -- Confederate Vets Didn't Find July 4 Particularly Exciting -- Law And Disorder -- Two Graves Filled In The Name Of Honor -- Waldrip's Wolfpack : The Hangerbande -- Dead Man's Hole -- Hold The Press For A Hanging -- Matters Of The Heart -- Nice Love Letter From A Bad Man -- A Doe And A Bride -- Critters -- A Rooster Gave His All For Texas -- The Old Rebel Bet On A Dead Horse -- Ole Maggie -- Characters -- Mark Withers -- Lieutenant Will Porter -- Bill Wharton -- Melcher's Exterminator -- Texas' Two-legged Hogg -- Landmarks -- Waco's Cotton Palace -- Sebastopol -- Covert Park, Aka Mount Bonnell -- Nameless Cave -- Barton Springs -- Texas' First Public School -- A Room For The Night -- Honest Abe? Lincoln Slept Here? -- The Antlers Hotel -- Johnson City's Pearl Hotel -- Mysteries And Could-have-beens -- Is Texas' First Anglo Grave In Lampasas County? -- Austin, Texas, Could Have Been Lamar, Texas -- Digging Up A Mystery -- Dare Devil Rogers -- Ghost Towns -- The Athens That Never Was -- Bluffton : Underwater Ghost Town -- Katemcy -- Ghosts -- Jake's Bridge -- Greer Building Ghosts -- Captain Merrill's Cabin -- Treasure -- The Old Ranger's Treasure Map -- The Sword In The Tree -- An Antique Weapons Cache Sealed In Concrete? -- Getting There And Back -- The Night The Beer Train Wrecked -- An Eighteen-mile-long Mud Hole -- Laughing Matters -- The Mayor Ordered A Wedding -- The Rifle With The Bent Barrel -- The Banker And The Lightning Rod Salesman -- Traditions -- Rock Fences -- Croghan Cobbler -- Memories Of Christmas Past : Gingerbread And Gunfire -- New Year's Eve In String Prairie -- The Night They Barbecued Bevo. Mike Cox. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.