Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers

by Betty Dooley Awbrey, Claude Dooley

Overview

This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. This fifth edition includes more than 100 new historical roadside markers with the actual inscriptions. With this book, travelers relive the tragedies and triumphs of Lone Star history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589794825
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	10/25/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	568
File size:	2 MB

Editorial Reviews

When a book hits its fifth edition, as this one has, you know that its authors have staked out a meaningful beat. Betty Dooley Awbrey's guide to Texas roadside markers provides a capsule history of more than 2,500 memorable Lone Star events. Why Stop? contains every word of every roadside marker in this vast state.