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Treasury of Texas Trivia
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Bill Cannon
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1998
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Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just about everything. Join author Bill Cannon as he reveals facts that depict the colorful bravado unique to the Lone Star State. For instance, no six but seven flags flew over Texas. In 1832 the composer of The Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, was the cousel hired by Sam Houston to defend him on assault charges. And someone other than Sam Bass may be buried in his grave. A Treasury of Texas Trivia is complemented by newspaper accounts, photographs, and other documentation of these and other little-known bits of Texas history.

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title	:	A Treasury of Texas Trivia
author	:	Cannon, Bill.
publisher	:	Republic of Texas Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	1556225261
print isbn13	:	9781556225260
ebook isbn13	:	9780585262437
language	:	English
subject	Texas--Miscellanea, Texas--Anecdotes.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	F386.6.C36 1997eb
ddc	:	976.4
subject	:	Texas--Miscellanea, Texas--Anecdotes.

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A Treasury of Texas Trivia

Bill Cannon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cannon, Bill.
A treasury of Texas trivia / Bill Cannon.
p. cm.
Includes Index.
ISBN 1-55622-526-1 (pb)
1. TexasMiscellanea. 2. TexasAnecdotes. I. Title
F386.6.C36 1996
976.4dc10 96-40199
CIP

1997, Bill Cannon

Republic of Texas Press is an imprint of Wordware Publishing, Inc.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by
any means without permission in writing from Wordware
Publishing, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN 1-55622-526-1

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

9701

All inquiries for volume purchase of this book should be addressed to Wordware publishing, Inc at 2320 Los Rios Blvd., Plano, Texas 75074. Telephone inquiries may be made by calling: (972) 423-0090

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Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Truth is Stranger than Fiction

The origin of Texas barbeque

The Curse of the Courthouse Clock

Texas' "Loch Ness Monster"

Battle Named for a Saint

The Black Bean Death Warrant

The XIT Ranch

Oscar

The Yellow Rose of Texas

"Old Rip"

Texas A&M's "12th Man"

"Bevo"

Jim Bowie and Dracula

Christopher Columbus and the jalapeno!

"Red Light District"

"Field of Cadillacs"

"Bury the Hatchet"

the Hindenburg disaster

Texas fire bombed

unusual cash crop

Langtry, Texas

William Marsh Rice murdered

Santa Claus wounded in gun battle

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