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The Guadalupe River Drive in the Texas Hill Country, now
approaching its 100th anniversary, began as a small path carved
from the rocky hillside. Today called River Road, this popular
tourist destination is enjoyed by both residents of and visitors to
New Braunfels. In Hill Country Backroads: Showing the Way in Comal
County, Laurie E. Jasinski explores the time when roads such as the
Guadalupe River Drive were unknown and unexplored. A time when it
was nearly impossible to reach your destination without having to
change a few tires or find a team of mules to pull you out of the
mud. A time when a journey was an adventure. Jasinski spent nearly
a decade researching the early history of motoring and tourism in
the area. Hill Country Backroads combines the setting of the Hill
Country in the early 1900s with a historical narrative of Joe
Sanders, Jasinki's grandfather, who was central to making the
countryside of Comal County accessible to visitors and residents.
Sanders improved travel in the area by creating the first scenic
map of Comal County and implementing a system of road signs to
label the county's confusing byways. Sanders' passion for travel
and his attempt to show others how to enjoy life are driving forces
throughout the book. Sanders' scenic maps of the area are
reproduced along with original photographs of the characters,
landscape, and automobiles of the period. Interviews with people
who knew Sanders provide fascinating insight into this man and his
contributions to Hill Country tourism. Hill Country Backroads
combines two distinct but interwoven elements: the setting of the
Hill Country in the early 1900s and the life of Joe Sanders. This
rich compilation of historical events and human interaction is
irresistible.
Where the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill
Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their
impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become
the earth's Cretaceous layer. It wouldn't be until a spring day in
1909, however, when young George Adams went splashing along the
creekbed, that chance and shifting sediments would reveal these
stony traces of an ancient past.Young Adams' first discovery of
dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy River Valley, near the small
community of Glen Rose, Texas, came more than one hundred million
years after the reign of the dinosaurs. During this prehistoric
era, herds of lumbering ""sauropods"" and tri-toed, carnivorous
""theropods"" made their way along what was then an ancient
""dinosaur highway."" Today, their long-ago footsteps are
immortalized in the limestone of the riverbed, arousing the
curiosity of picnickers and paleontologists alike. Indeed, nearly a
century after their first discovery, the ""stony oddities"" of
Somervell County continue to draw Saturday-afternoon tourists,
renowned scholars, and dinosaur enthusiasts from across the nation
and around the globe.In her careful and colorful history of
Dinosaur Valley State Park, Jasinski deftly interweaves millennia
of geological time with local legend, old photographs, and quirky
anecdotes of the people who have called the valley home. Beginning
with the valley's ""first visitors"" - the dinosaurs - Jasinski
traces the area's history through to the decades of the twentieth
century, when new track sites continued to be discovered, and
visitors and locals continued to leave their own material imprint
upon the changing landscape. The book reaches its culmination in
the account of the hard-won battle fought by Somervell residents
and officials during the latter decades of the century to secure
Dinosaur Valley's preservation as a state park.
The musical voice of Texas presents itself as vast and diverse as
the Lone Star State's landscape. According to Casey Monahan, "To
travel Texas with music as your guide is a year-round opportunity
to experience first-hand this amazing cultural force....Texas music
offers a vibrant and enjoyable experience through which to
understand and enjoy Texas culture." Building on the work of The
Handbook of Texas Music that was published in 2003 and in
partnership with the Texas Music Office and the Center for Texas
Music History (Texas State University-San Marcos), The Handbook of
Texas Music, Second Edition, offers completely updated entries and
features new and expanded coverage of the musicians, ensembles,
dance halls, festivals, businesses, orchestras, organizations, and
genres that have helped define the state's musical legacy. More
than 850 articles, including almost 400 new entries 255 images,
including more than 170 new photos, sheet music art, and posters
that lavishly illustrate the text Appendix with a stage name
listing for musicians Supported by an outstanding team of music
advisors from across the state, The Handbook of Texas Music, Second
Edition, furnishes new articles on the music festivals, museums,
and halls of fame in Texas, as well as the many honky-tonks,
concert halls, and clubs big and small, that invite readers to
explore their own musical journeys. Scholarship on many of the
state's pioneering groups and the recording industry and
professionals who helped produce and promote their music provides
fresh insight into the history of Texas music and its influence far
beyond the state's borders. Celebrate the musical tapestry of Texas
from A to Z!
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