Greetings from Texas Postcard. Available at Legends’ General Store.

The word Texas comes from the word “teysha,” meaning “hello friend” in the language of the Caddo Indian tribes, and the state’s motto is “Friendship.”  The people of Texas live by those words and welcome you to the Lone Star State. With more than 267,000 square miles, everything really is bigger in Texas.

With four national forests, two national parks, 120 State Parks, and a wealth of history, the State of Texas will provide you with miles of entertainment.

Sprinkled with some old-fashioned Western Grit, you will see craggy mountains, pine forests, canyons, and tallgrass prairies. As you cross the second-largest state in the nation, you can experience everything from cowboys to High Tech Urban Sprawls. Texas offers something for everyone!

On these pages, you will read about infamous outlaws, such as Sam Bass and Wild Bill Longley, the Indian Wars, the towns and icons of Route 66, the ghost towns of Texas, and much more.

Enjoy your travels in Texas, and welcome to the Lone Star Legends.

Kathy R. Alexander
Editor

Ps. Dave and Kathy were both born and raised in Texas and have birth certificates to prove it… if ever necessary (wink)

Texas Flag

The Texas flag was adopted when Texas became the 28th state in 1845. As with the flag of the United States, the blue stands for loyalty, the white represents strength, and the red is for bravery.

The Alamo at night. One can almost imagine those long-ago Texian soldiers hunkered behind these walls, listening to signs of attack from the Mexican Army. Photo by Kathy Alexander.

Big Bend National Park. Photo by Kathy Alexander.

A storm rolls in at Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo, Texas. Photo by Dave Alexander.