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Photo of legendary elephant crossing the Red River survives forensic analysis

Photo of legendary elephant crossing the Red River survives forensic analysis

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This photograph is said to show an elephant carrying a young George Holt across the Red River into Texas in...
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Fabled Elder Family Show elephant turns up in archives

Fabled Elder Family Show elephant turns up in archives

East Texas History Featured
Photo above, townsfolk at Sulphur Bluff gather for a photo with the dancers and musicians before the Elder Family Show's...
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Show girls sweeten Sugar Hill, Texas

Show girls sweeten Sugar Hill, Texas

East Texas History Featured
In the photo Above are Bennie Elder and Augusta Mae “Gussie” DeLockery, circa 1918. Bennie was one of the three...
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Happy Hogs and Sugar Cane Sweeten Hess Family’s Place

Happy Hogs and Sugar Cane Sweeten Hess Family’s Place

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Seventh generation on the family place, at 26 Ryan Hess has been around the block. He tried rodeoing after his...
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Last Cowboy on the Bankhead Highway

Last Cowboy on the Bankhead Highway

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Bankhead Highway From the East Texas Journal, April 2016 Author Dan Smith put the history of the Bankhead Highway in...
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JFK conspiracy theories rise from mixed blood of Camp, Red River and Titus Counties

JFK conspiracy theories rise from mixed blood of Camp, Red River and Titus Counties

East Texas History Featured
Above photo, one time Camp County resident James Tague said the FBI purposely discredited him to discount his first-hand account,...
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War brought Longhorn Army Ammunitions Plant to East Texas

War brought Longhorn Army Ammunitions Plant to East Texas

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Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant From The East Texas Journal, August 2022 By Hudson Old, Publisher MARSHALL, TEXAS – The last...
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War-Time plant that ‘changed the world’ idled at Lone Star Steel

War-Time plant that ‘changed the world’ idled at Lone Star Steel

East Texas History Featured
Above photo shows an airship built to accommodate researchers and military personnel flying into secret test facilities was built at...
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Secret Cold War military lab embedded at steel plant

Secret Cold War military lab embedded at steel plant

East Texas History Featured
Above photo, the secret Cold War military lab at Lone Star was the first to use a side door that...
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Gunfight at Naples saloon

Gunfight at Naples saloon

East Texas History Featured
By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Naples, Texas - It was December 3,1898, sometime just after dark. The saloons along Front...
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Frontier history spans 180 years on Daphne Prairie

Frontier history spans 180 years on Daphne Prairie

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Daphne Prairie From the East Texas Journal, August 1994 In 1767, a French explorer who traveled the Cherokee Trace from...
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Longview Yacht Club

Longview Yacht Club

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Longview Yacht Club From the East Texas Journal, January 2015 Lake O The Pines, Texas – The son has become...
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Big Earl’s Galley Cafe and Bait Shop

Big Earl’s Galley Cafe and Bait Shop

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Big Earl's, From the East Texas Journal, May 2015 Pittsburg, Texas – Saturday nights, they took orders for étouffée in the...
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Reconnaissance flight put pilot over Normandy

Reconnaissance flight put pilot over Normandy

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  From East Texas Journal, June 1994 edition CHERBOURG, France - A month before D-Day, Tom Connor's plane ripped through...
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Indian fights, outlaws and lynching are Cason, Texas frontier legacy

Indian fights, outlaws and lynching are Cason, Texas frontier legacy

East Texas History Featured
From East Texas Journal, April 1996 By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Conventional wisdom is that the first child born in...
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