Hells yea Texas History

This is a blog dedicated to the epic history and culture of the 28th state of the Union, and all the larger-than-life characters who made The Lone Star State badass.

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Horse selfie from Galveston, TX.

📷 by Chloe the horse

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Route 66

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600 men stand in for absent fathers at Texas school’s event

Advocates for a Texas middle school only asked 50 men to support students, who would have been without fathers at their 'Breakfast with Dads' event, and to their surprise 600 men showed up.

About 150 male students, ages 11 to 13, signed up for the Breakfast with Dads event, which was held on Dec.14, 2017, but Kristina Dove, the senior partner relations manager at Big Thought, a youth development nonprofit, wasn’t sure if every student would have a father present during the program.

She immediately jumped into action, using social media to call for volunteers for the event.  

And on the day of the program, event organizers were overcome with emotion when 600 men showed up to support their students.

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Literally brought tears to my eyes.

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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS OCTOBER 2017

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San Antonio Courts, tourist cabins on US Route 81 near San Antonio, Texas circa 1940.  $1.25 per night.  Photos from the collection of Stephen Taylor.

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this cured my depression. my anxiety. my bills. my job. everything’s fine. i hope you have a good day

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not to be dramatic or anything but I would die for this goblin

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Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

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Good morning everyone! @georgehutto here, reporting for duty…ready to take you on a tour through Southeast Texas! Let’s start with a gorgeous sunrise on the Neches River!

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Buffalo Bayou, Houston, 2017

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Rare outtakes from Selena’s Coca-Cola photo shoot! (1994)

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Harvey’s flooding in Houston. And it’s only getting worse. Still raining here, but I’m up north of Austin and not in a flood-prone area {x}{x}[x]

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Impassable water is only 2 miles from my parents house… thankfully the water is only at the curb RN. I hope it stops raining soon.

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If you know someone who is helping out with the water rescues near Houston, please make sure they have this phone number!

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Help if you can!

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Please donate and SHARE.

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Construction of highway I-45 in Conroe, TX in 1961

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In Memoriam Jim Marrs December 5, 1943 - August 2, 2017

“Goddammit, I want to stay in Texas!”

I never saw my dear friend Jim Marrs without a hat unless the wind blew it off. Jim was born 73 years ago in Fort Worth, Texas, with a fearless soul and quicksilver mind that could always see the irony and humor in his fellow humans and the sour hidden layers of political power brokers. After graduating from Paschal High School in Fort Worth where he flowered into being life of the party wherever he was, Jim went on to the University of North Texas in Denton to get a journalism degree in 1966. Then came reporting and editing at the Denton Record Chronicle, the Lubbock Avalanche Journal and investigative reporter and cartoonist at the Fortworth-Star Telegram.

One subject that haunted him as one big lie was the “official” Washington story on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. By 1988, Jim had a huge file that contradicted Oswald being the single shooter and Jim had lots of sources saying the assassination was linked to JFK wanting to tell the truth about UFOs and an alien presence on Earth. So, Jim wrote the 1989 best-seller Crossfire that Hollywood film director Oliver Stone made into the movie JFK.

Then Jim dug deeper into the UFO and alien side of the JFK murder and produced the best-seller The Alien Agenda in 1997. From then to this summer of 2017, Jim kept diving into those sour layers of Earth power brokers past and present. In July 2017, what would be his last book, The Illuminati, was released. It was Jim’s twelfth book.

He is survived by his wife Carol of 49 years, their two daughters Cathryn Lafitte, who has three children, and Jayme Castle. Carol told me today a few hours after Jim’s heart apparently gave out that he never wanted to leave their 30 acres in Springtown, Texas. As he became so ill this summer and had to go on to a kidney dialysis machine, he would say in frustration, “Goddammit, I want to stay in Texas!” So in a month or two, Carol is going to “have a big wake and spread Jim’s ashes on the land he loved so much.” God protect you always, Jim, wherever you are now.