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Traces of Texas
@TracesofTexas
Purveyor of Texas history and culture. Cowboy boots junkie. I drive a horse. My other dog is a chicken. Organic, free-range Texas content. Mule spoken here.
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    Nov 4, 2022
    After Chas McCormick made "The Catch" he fell back onto the warning track. One of Traces of Texas reader Lorri White's friends was sitting right there and snapped this photo of the impression Mccormick's body made in the dirt there and sent it to Lorri seconds afterward. Awesome!
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    Apr 30, 2023
    Willie Nelson and his grandmother, Nancy Nelson, circa 1950. Willie was born 90 years ago today in 1933. His mother left soon after he was born and his father remarried and also moved away, leaving Nelson and his sister Bobbie to be raised by their grandparents, who had taught
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    Jul 5, 2025
    Some good news out of this calamity. Somehow a girl went 12 miles down the river in the flood and was recovered alive. Truly a miracle.
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    Jul 5, 2025
    “Girl who was in tree traveled 12 miles down river.” - Carl Jeter in Center Point
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    Feb 2, 2025
    Feb. 2, 1959. Buddy Holly's last show. 66 years ago tomorrow (at 1:00 a.m.), Buddy Holly's plane went down in a field near Clear Lake, Iowa. This is the last known photo of Buddy, taken 66 years ago today. That's Waylon Jennings playing bass in the background, over Buddy's right
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    Mar 13, 2023
    The entire state of Texas as photographed by NASA from space, 2018. This is a fascinating image to look at if you're at all familiar with Texas geography. Not only can you see all of the major cities but even towns like Temple-Killeen, Midland-Odessa ... even small towns like
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    Traces of Texas
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    Apr 20, 2023
    Crossing into Texas from Louisiana can be disheartening to one who is bound for, say, Arizona or California. 😄
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    Nov 30, 2024
    Tom Landry as a Texas Longhorn. By the time this photo was taken, he had already flown 30 flights as a B-17 bomber co-pilot in World War II and crash-landed in Belgium.
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    Jun 5, 2021
    LBJ howling with his dog Yuki as his grandson looks on in wide-eyed amazement. Take at the ranch in 1968, while LBJ was still president.
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    Mar 22, 2023
    Willie Nelson at home in Tennessee, late 1960s. His house subsequently burned down on Dec. 23, 1969. While the fire was raging Willie dashed in to retrieve two things: Trigger, his guitar, and a pound of marijuana. Willie later said "I wasn’t being brave running in there to
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    Sep 2, 2023
    The Texas Quote of the Day: "It's been a pretty good song. It was written in five minutes about a hot day in Austin, Texas with a margarita and a beautiful woman. I finished it in Key West. I had no idea." ----- Jimmy Buffett, who passed away yesterday, talks about how he wrote
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    Apr 9, 2023
    Every Easter I post this photo of San Antonio farmer Sam Smith celebrating rain after a prolonged drought on Easter Sunday, 1951. I do not apologize for it as it's my all-time favorite Texas photo. Taken by AP photographer Harvey Belgin, it was nominated for a Pulitzer.
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    Dec 22, 2022
    A Texas boy will survive ... 😃 @Whataburger
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    Dec 22, 2022
    It's currently 4° in Amarillo. Can y'all imagine being out on the plains 140 years ago on such a night and not knowing what was about to happen, or how long it would last? You would be out there with your horse, the wind would suddenly shift, and you would say, "uh-oh."
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    Jun 6, 2021
    The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: Rudder Tower at Texas A&M University is the exact same height, 110 feet, as the cliff that James Earl Rudder and his band of Rangers scaled in Normandy on D-Day 77 years ago. That is by design.