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[@TracesofTexas](/creator/twitter/TracesofTexas)
"A gas refinery worker with his children and his lunch pail in Borger 1942. He worked at the Phillips XX plant there doing his part in the war effort. The children might very well be alive today. I hope they are and I hope they see their father here. Photo taken by John Vachon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1970666289724051544) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-09-24T01:47Z 147.7K followers, 13.1K engagements


"The Texas Quote of the Day: "It was the town of Clarendon a devout community which furnished the courts of Tascosa the nearby cattle boom town with a means of punishment for thorough recalcitrants. When an offender went too far in Tascosa he was sentenced to ten days in Clarendon. That was the nearest thing to solitary confinement for a cowhand who liked his liquor. " ----- Curtis Bishop "Lots of Land 1949 Shown here: Cowboys sit down for lunch in Clarendon 1904"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1973405831556108588) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-01T15:13Z 147.7K followers, 7672 engagements


"Here's a sad statistic: Stevie Ray Vaughan was on the planet for 13092 days. As of today it's been exactly 13092 days since he died. Tomorrow he will have been gone longer than he was here. Today would have been his 71st birthday. Did you ever see him live I'd love to hear your story. RIP Stevie Ray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1974181697072628051) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-03T18:36Z 147.7K followers, 87.6K engagements


"It's Friday night Traces of Texas reader Belinda Fleming sent in this wonderful old shot of the Legal Tender Saloon in Menard. It is undated. The wooden saloon was located next to what is today the First State Bank building in Menard. The bank building still stands today. It was formerly Bevans Bank. The man in front of the building wearing white is Lem Crawford. Thank you Belinda Awesome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1974238451521470941) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-03T22:21Z 147.7K followers, 9796 engagements


"The Alameda Theater on Houston St. in San Antonio 1955. It still stands and underwent a major restoration a few years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1977173621870105042) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-12T00:45Z 147.6K followers, 9272 engagements


"One of the greatest photos of Texas ever taken IMO. This is the R.P. Bean ranch about XX miles north of Van Horn Texas. Robert Perry Bean who was born in 1845 moved to West Texas from Lampasas via oxcart in 1883 and set up what he called the B Ranch on the site that later became the Figure Two (Figure 2) Ranch; they shifted their headquarters a couple of years later in 1885. The historical marker for the Figure Two ranch is on highway XX about XX miles north of Van Horn but I believe the exact geography in this photo can be seen as you drive north from Van Horn roughly XX miles north of town."  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1977328394691092694) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-12T11:00Z 147.7K followers, 19.9K engagements


"A boy and his best friend in El Paso 1945. A sensational image. Y'all agree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1977438114730893610) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-12T18:16Z 147.7K followers, 15.9K engagements


"Traces of Texas reader Molly Hayes was nice enough to share this photo of her parents John and Linda Hayes at the SMU Tri Delt house back when they were courting in 1961. They were married for XX years. John was a co-pilot for Braniff Airlines for many years. They look so radiant and polished here Thank you Molly. Super duper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1977859546820337846) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-13T22:10Z 147.7K followers, 11.8K engagements


"This dashing young policeman on a Harley Davidson is Harris S. Bernard of the El Paso Police Department. This was taken in 1928"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978270524330348927) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-15T01:23Z 147.7K followers, 9234 engagements


"This dashing young policeman on a Harley Davidson is Harris S. Bernard of the El Paso Police Department. This was taken in 1928"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978271018608111685) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-15T01:25Z 147.7K followers, 8177 engagements


"The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: XXX years ago today on October XX 1900 newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst threw a grand charity bazaar at New York Citys Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to help the children orphaned by the catastrophic Galveston hurricane of September X 1900. The storm had battered the Island City Protestant Orphans Homethankfully none of the children were hurtbut the damage forced them to relocate temporarily to the Buckner Baptist Childrens Home in Dallas. When the home reopened in 1902 it had a new name and a new building paid for with the $50000 raised through Hearsts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978479583927136691) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-15T15:14Z 147.7K followers, 7217 engagements


"A boy eats a tortilla in San Antonio 1939. I've expounded on the simple miracle of a homemade tortilla several times and it looks to me like this young boy has already discovered that truth too. Taken by Russell Lee"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978533345190367540) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-15T18:48Z 147.7K followers, 8440 engagements


"As one who lived in Austin for a long time may I say that after two days in Amarillo I really REALLY appreciate that city a lot more particularly the traffic. I was on the XXX loop on Saturday afternoon and there wasn't a car in sight in front of me or my rear view mirror. At times it had the feeling of a Twilight Zone episode. Here is one of my own photos taken near Amarillo at sundown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978552146535526583) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-15T20:02Z 147.7K followers, 37.5K engagements


"Vaqueros prepare a fire in order to heat up their branding irons in a corral on a ranch near Marfa 1939. I can almost hear their conversation. The utter clarity that Russell Lee was able to get with his Zeiss lenses XX years ago astounds me. Perfection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978611319143117138) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-15T23:57Z 147.7K followers, 7600 engagements


"Traces of Texas reader W.F. Strong was nice enough to send in this wonderful photo of his colleague George McLemore who is the little boy in this photo taken in 1951 at the Sabine River. George's father had just given him this .22 rifle for his 7th birthday. It was a Sunday and after church ---- a detail that I love ---- his father and a friend took George out to the river to let him try it out. George shared this photo with W.F. and kindly agreed to let W.F. send it in to me here at Traces. I was looking at this and thinking about the first gun my dad gave to me which is a Remington Model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978883649018708436) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-16T18:00Z 147.7K followers, 10K engagements


"TOT reader George Milner shared this wonderful circa 1874 shot of his great great Grandfather Jonathan Milner who was an itinerant Baptist preacher in Rains County and Comanche County back then Per George Jonathan's great-Grandfather was Capt. John Milner of the Georgia militia who fought in the revolutionary war and was considered a patriot and war hero in Georgia. Look at this man's mode of travel and his beard. It's just too perfect isn't it He's a Hollywood image of what such a man SHOULD look like. And look at his possessions in the back of that wagon. I wonder what you'd find if you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978928759345471724) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-16T20:59Z 147.7K followers, 5504 engagements


"Kindly remember that the bands on the nine-banded armadillo are actually called "scutes." A scute is a thickened horny or bony plate that appears on various critters like a turtle's shell the back of an crocodile --- and the armadillo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978946015857107143) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-16T22:07Z 147.7K followers, 9759 engagements


"@QuapawQ I have no idea who you're referring to. "They" The owner of the hotel The hotel was torn down because it was no longer structurally viable and the owner wanted to repurpose the building materials before they rotted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979652474639417773) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-18T20:55Z 147.7K followers, XXX engagements


"A Texas cowgirl on the XXX and Burroum Ranch in Del Rio in 1909. Such a lovely young Texas lady The XXX Ranch and Burroum Ranch Del Rio Texas collection is comprised of XX photographic prints held by the DeGolyer Library Southern Methodist University. The collection documents life on the famous XXX Ranch and Burroum Ranch and contains portrait photographs of Molly Clark and Elizabeth and May Burroum as well as rodeo and round up scenes longhorns cowboys and cowgirls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1946525431022366977) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-07-19T11:00Z 147.7K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Depot and train in Lufkin Texas 1921. At the time this photo was taken the depot was practically brand newand the story behind why it had to be rebuilt is a pretty crazy. According to the Angelina County History Center the original wooden depot didnt just wear out or burn down. It was blown up. On the night of March X 1913 George Frank Parsons a ticket agent at the station deliberately set off a dynamite explosion that destroyed the building. Fearing that the railroad company might move its sub-divisional headquarters to Nacogdoches local boosters in Lufkin rallied hard for a replacement."  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1972405190037770442) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-09-28T20:56Z 147.7K followers, 9083 engagements


"Traaces of Texas reader Len Rogers was so kind as to send in this nifty photo of Lady Bird Johnson's father's store in Karnack Texas. Thomas Jefferson Taylor was a successful merchant and philanthropist there in Karnack. He was also one of LBJ's principal financial backers in his first race for Congress in 1937. I can't say with certainty but I don't believe this store stands anymore. Thank you Len. Cool historical photo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1972979746486075899) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-09-30T11:00Z 147.7K followers, 9582 engagements


"Traces of Texas reader Janet Fenske graciously shared this lovely photo of her aunt Dorothy Mulvihill Pickell on her wedding day in 1928. Dorothy was a lifelong Houstonian. She was a descendant of Alexander Hodge one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred settlers. Dorothy was born in Houston in 1905 died in 1992 and was a receptionist at Marian Catholic High School for many years. The family home for a couple of generations was in East Downtown on Walker St. Thank you Janet. Your aunt was radiant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1974987985968882011) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-06T00:00Z 147.7K followers, 11.6K engagements


"The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day is deliciously arcane If you go to Shelbyville Texas --- almost to the Louisiana state line ---- back in the Piney Woods you'll find one of the strangest final resting places youll ever stumble upon: the National Hall of Fame Cemetery of Fox Hounds. Folks around Shelbyville will tell you its the only memorial park of its kind in the whole country and honestly I dont see anyone arguing. The place got its start in 1941 when a man named Hinkel Schillings buried his beloved hound Dawson Stride under the pines. Dawson wasnt just any mutt he was a state champ the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1977042006548545863) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-11T16:02Z 147.7K followers, 8682 engagements


"Happy to report that civilization has reached the dive bars of Amarillo. 😀😜"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1977206723225239565) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-12T02:56Z 147.7K followers, 17.4K engagements


"The Texas Quote of the Day: "The vaquero was not merely a herder of cattle; he was a man who lived with them who knew their ways as he knew his own. He could read the sky for rain the grass for drought the tracks for danger. His life was hard but it was free and he would not trade it for the softest bed in town. He was proud not in the way of boastfulness but in the quiet certainty of a man who has faced the wilderness and come out whole. To ride with him to share his campfire was to know a man who belonged to the land as surely as the land belonged to him." ----- J. Frank Dobie "A Vaquero of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1977400114697380317) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-12T15:45Z 147.7K followers, 10.2K engagements


"The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: If you watch the 1998 movie "The Newton Boys" ----- a movie based on the true life exploits of the Newton brothers a gang of bank-robbers who were from Texas and who were the most successful bank robbers in U.S. history ---- there's a scene in which one of the brothers Jess is apprehended in 1924 by legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. This is a historical falsehood. Jess was actually arrested by Frank Hamer's older brother Harrison Lester Hamer who was also a Texas Ranger. In fact Harrison was a lawman all of his working life and did several stints of duty as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978113566671810816) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-14T15:00Z 147.7K followers, 8679 engagements


"Georgetown Texas was established in 1848 and named after George Washington Glasscock pictured below. Glasscock along with his partner Thomas B. Huling generously donated land for the towns founding. Early settlers were drawn to the areas abundant timber clear water and fertile soil qualities that also attracted the Tonkawa Indians who established a village there. The land was not only rich in resources but also affordable. The first settlers came from states like Tennessee Kentucky North Carolina Arkansas and Illinois. By the 1850s Swedish immigrants began to settle in the area followed by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978136901560275296) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-14T16:32Z 147.7K followers, 8345 engagements


"Two 1970 Plymouth Superbirds somewhere in Texas. The Plymouth Superbird was a highly modified short-lived version of the Plymouth Road Runner. The Superbird had applied graphic images as well as a distinctive horn sound both referencing the popular Looney Tunes cartoon character Road Runner. Although only 1935 Superbirds were produced it's believed that more than 1000 of them are still out there. My impression is that they are quite collectible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978158189955743768) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-14T17:57Z 147.7K followers, 11.1K engagements


"The Texas Quote of the Day: "I thought I had never seen so perfect a model of manliness and bravery and my admiration knew no bounds. Calling the men together at DeWitt's Tavern in Gonzales he delivered a short speech setting forth in stirring words the complications of troubles that threatened our Republic finally closing with a rousing appeal to every Texan to be loyal and true in that hour of need and peril. I yet consider him about the finest looking man I ever saw as he stood over six feet tall in the very prime of mature manhood." ----- John Holland Jenkins recalls the first time he saw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978457505521906017) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-15T13:46Z 147.7K followers, 6157 engagements


"In February 1956 the man shown here John D. Hearon was driving a Continental Trailways bus bound from Amarillo Texas to Tucumcari New Mexico. John wasnt anyone famous or powerful just a working man doing his job. But his actions that day turned him into a hero. That day a record-setting blizzard swept across the High Plains. Winds howled snow drifted shoulder-high and visibility fell to nothing. Somewhere west of Adrian Texas near the state line Hearons bus bogged down in the snow and refused to budge. He kept his passengers calm doing what he could to conserve heat and reassure them but as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978592989984502088) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-15T22:45Z 147.7K followers, 25.3K engagements


"PSA: Lonesome Dove is on Amazon Prime. Everybody's familiar with all of the famous quotes ("Loree darlin' .") but I love some of the lesser known quotes too like Jake Spoon saying "I may not have made no fortune but by God I never said a word to a pig neither.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978828197656416474) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-16T14:19Z 147.7K followers, 10.3K engagements


"If you wander over to XXX King William Street in San Antonio youll find the grand old Anton Wulff House a 6000-square-foot beauty thats been standing there since 1870. The photo you see here was taken in the 1970s but the story behind that house stretches all the way back to Hamburg Germany where its builder Anton Friedrich Wulff was born in 1822. Wulff left Hamburg on June XX 1848 sailing for America and landing in New York two months later. He couldnt find work there or in Cincinnati so he made his way down the rivers to New Orleans and broke but determined eventually reached San Antonio."  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978868458906382396) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-16T16:59Z 147.7K followers, 6530 engagements


"Speaking of Texans and guns here's a remarkable historic photo. Famed Texas marksman Ad Toepperwein sits on top of 72500 wooden blocks that he shot at in San Antonio during a ten-day period from December XX to December XX 1907. Using three Winchester .22 caliber rifles Ad shot at 72500 and missed nine. The targets were XXX inches by XXX inches and were thrown into the air by three different men. He shot for XXXX hours during the ten days. It was perhaps the greatest demonstration of marksmanship the world has ever seen. The year before that in 1906 Ad had done the same thing but fired at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978908302538084677) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-16T19:38Z 147.7K followers, 29.3K engagements


"A Saturday morning in San Augustine Texas 1939. I love the hustle and bustle conveyed by this scene: everybody coming to town to conduct their business and catch up on the local gossip. It looks to me like Coca Cola was a big product thereabouts 😃 Taken by Russell Lee"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1978995336581370154) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-17T01:23Z 147.7K followers, 9060 engagements


"The Texas Quote of the Day is a good one "Mrs. Erva Ann Norwood Sherrard of Spring Creek Ranch Burnet was a young pioneer back in the early 90's when her parents filed on a homestead in Crosby County near Emma but some of the experiences of those days made a deep impression on her memory. 'I do not remember when my dad filed on some land near Emma Crosby County in 1892' she said. 'We had been living at Detroit Texas my birthplace. My mother's maiden name was Maggie Dean. 'The first thing I can remember was opening my eyes one morning to see something coming creeping down the steps of our"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979211069110231519) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-17T15:41Z 147.7K followers, 5864 engagements


"Traces of Texas reader Geoge Clover kindly sent in this splendid shot of his father (left) in front of the Alamo with his brand new six cylinder truck. George's dad came back from World War II went to work for King Transport and drove until he was XX years old --- and never had an accident. This is a publicity photo showing him being "pulled over' by an interstate commerce commission inspector who is inspecting his logbook. The purpose of the photo was to show the I.C.C. inspectors as regular hard-working men who were just doing their jobs. The image is tremendously clear --- really just a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979250180550803731) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-17T18:16Z 147.7K followers, 7298 engagements


"The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: On October XX 1845 two early German-Texan pioneers Friedrich Wilhelm von Wrede Sr. and Oscar von Claren were killed and scalped by Native Americans near a spot known as Live Oak Spring about ten or twelve miles south of Austin at a place called Manchaca Springs. Wrede had first come to Texas in 1837 traveling widely and taking careful notes on what he saw. When he returned to Germany in 1843 he published Lebensbilder aus den vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika und Texas (Sketches from Life in the United States of North America and Texas) in 1844. His book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979589528747975057) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-18T16:44Z 147.7K followers, 24.8K engagements


"Farmers getting a field reader the old-fashioned way in East Texas 1939. A fantastic image from Russell Lee"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979680714091327717) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-18T22:47Z 147.7K followers, 9499 engagements


"Portrait of a young woman in the 1920s probably in Dallas. Her eyes are works of art and her flapper hair is awesome. Courtesy the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection at SMU's Degolyer Library"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979704109021450655) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-19T00:20Z 147.7K followers, 8613 engagements


"The XXX block of Main Street in Dallas 1875. XX years before this scene would have been a prairie. XX years before and it was still a part of Mexico. I love how clear the signs are. This wonderful photo is part of the George W. Cook collection at SMU's wonderful Degolyer Library"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979804714113101860) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-19T07:00Z 147.7K followers, 10.7K engagements


"A man and woman in Houston circa 1895. I wonder if they are man and wife. I think he looks like a man of means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979895309984579899) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-19T13:00Z 147.7K followers, 6460 engagements


"Ever drive from Kerrville to Bandera You might fight the Arcane Texas Fact of the Day interesting: If you've ever made the beautiful drive between Kerrville and Bandera on Highway 173/689 you have traveled smack dab through Bandera Pass shown here in a modern photo and in a photo of the cavalry passing through in the early 1900s. Bandera Pass is a narrow V-shaped natural erosion cut in the long limestone ridge separating the Medina and Guadalupe valleys just south of the Bandera-Kerr county line. As such it offers a natural "traversing spot" and has been used for thousands of years. There are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1979961085613527343) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-19T17:21Z 147.7K followers, 23.3K engagements


"These two photos show the English Motel in Amarillo which is located at 1336 W Amarillo Blvd. The second photo is a recent street view but the first shows the motel in 1977. It had been built in 1955 and was notable for its Tudor Revival style cabins with gabled roofs. And it tickles me that back in 1955 some Amarillo entrepreneur thought that he could make money if he opened a motel but he needed a theme or a gimmick for it so he chose a British motif and how there are few places on the planet lesser like England than Amarillo and . It just makes me smile. "Welcome to the jolly old English"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1980007480684839364) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-19T20:25Z 147.7K followers, 8942 engagements


"One of my own photos. An abandoned Phillips XX station in Adrian Texas about two weeks ago. Sad to think that at one point this was somebody's dream"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1980051713139892305) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-19T23:21Z 147.7K followers, 1737 engagements


"One of my own photos. An abandoned Phillips XX station under a pastel sky in Adrian Texas about two weeks ago. Sad to think that at one point this was somebody's dream"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1980052670124872063) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-19T23:25Z 147.7K followers, 8479 engagements


"The great Lyle Lovett with a gorgeous rendition of a classic song that appeared on the soundtrack. It's perfect Sunday night music"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1980104606035190239) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-20T02:51Z 147.7K followers, 12.5K engagements


"About two weeks ago I posted about the trolley that for more than XX years ran between El Paso and Juarez Mexico --- the first and maybe the only trolley that connected two countries in the world. For the first XX years mules pulled the trolley but then in 1902 they were replaced by electric trolleys. Anyway here's another more modern photo of the same trolley. I think this is about 1960 but could be wrong. I'd ride this into Juarez and have me a good ol' time. Courtesy the El Paso Public Library Border Heritage Center"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1980170304681918610) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-20T07:12Z 147.7K followers, 9406 engagements


"Five soldiers from the Eighth Texas Cavalry better known as Terrys Texas Rangers circa 1862-1863. They had signed up for the Confederate Army rallied together by Benjamin Franklin Terry in August1861. Each one had to show up with their own gearthink shotgun or carbine a Colt revolver a Bowie knife plus a saddle bridle and blanket. The army took care of the horses though. They officially became part of the Confederate forces in Houston on September X 1861 with Terry as colonel Thomas S. Lubbock as lieutenant colonel and Thomas Harrison as major. Things quick turned. Terry was killed at the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1980227505349935439) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-20T11:00Z 147.7K followers, 11.1K engagements


"U.S. customs agents inspect the bags of women coming from Juarez into El Paso 1937. Whenever I see shots like this I always think that the inspectors are from Ohio or North Carolina and imagine their reactions the first time they saw El Paso. It's not a place for wussies 😀 A great shot from Dorothea Lange"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1977475611783528619) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-12T20:45Z 147.7K followers, 9966 engagements


"Traces of Texas reader Stephen "Doc" Watson sent in this great photo of the legendary Gatemouth Brown. Stephen sent this to me about a year ago and I meant to post it but never did and for that I apologize. But now I have a great reason to post and that is that I just read that on Sept. XX vandals desecrated Gatemouth's grave in Orange Texas and it hacks me off to no end. Mind you this is the THIRD time since Gatemouth died on Sept. XX 2005. XX days later with Gatemouth barely in the ground Hurricane Rita came ashore flooding the cemetery and floating many caskets Gates' among them. He was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1980257700945543644) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-20T13:00Z 147.7K followers, 10K engagements


"A wonderful view of El Paso looking from the north south toward the Rio Grande and Juarez 1910. The city had grown enormously over the previous XX years growing from XXX El Pasoans in 1880 to 39279. The key event The arrival of the railroad in 1881"  
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"At the Texas State line near Higgins Texas. It was a magical sunset to be sure. Some no account loser came by and put bullet holes through the sign as you can see if you look closely. I'll never understand people. One of my own photos taken a week ago today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1980402514437763128) [@TracesofTexas](/creator/x/TracesofTexas) 2025-10-20T22:35Z 147.7K followers, 7294 engagements