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National Parks in Texas

Top of Page Source: iStockTexas is the US's second-largest state by area (after Alaska). The Lone Star State is home to spectacular mountain ranges, colossal canyons, and vast deserts, as well as…

Edwin Ford Piper: Have you an Eye

Have you an EyeEdwin Ford PiperHave you an eye for the trails, the trails, The old mark and the new? What scurried here, what loitered there, In the dust and in the dew?Have you an eye…

Oregon

  Oregon State Information Capital: Salem Official Name: State of Oregon Organized as a territory/republic: August 14, 1848 Entered Union (rank): February 14, 1859 (33rd state) Present…

James, Jesse

(Encyclopedia) James, Jesse (Woodson), 1847–82, American outlaw, b. Clay co., Mo. At the age of 15 he joined the Confederate guerrilla band led by William Quantrill and participated in the brutal and…

Lomax, John Avery

(Encyclopedia) Lomax, John AveryLomax, John Averylōˈmăks [key], 1867–1948, American folklorist, b. Goodman, Miss. Lomax's first book, Cowboy Songs (1910), contained for the first time in print such…

Astoria

(Encyclopedia) AstoriaAstoriaăstôrˈēə [key]. 1 Commercial, industrial, and residential section of NW Queens borough of New York City, SE N.Y.; settled in the 17th cent. as Hallet's Cove. It was…

Mountain Meadows

(Encyclopedia) Mountain Meadows, small valley in extreme SW Utah, where in 1857 a party of some 140 emigrants bound for California were massacred. It was a period when friction between Mormons and…

pony express

(Encyclopedia) pony express, in U.S. history, relay mail service. At its inception in Apr., 1860, the pony express operated between St. Joseph, Mo., the western end of a telegraph line, and…

1999-2000 Division I-AA Football Playoffs

First Round (Nov. 27) N. Carolina A&T 24 at Tennessee St. 10 at Georgia Southern 72 N. Arizona 29 at Hofstra 27 Lehigh 15 Florida A&M 44 at Appalachian St. 29 at Troy…

Travel Websites

Adventure Travel & EcotourismAdventure Travel Tips: www.adventuretraveltips.com Outside Onlineoutside.away.com International Ecotourism Society: www.ecotourism.org Backpacking and…