texas family vacations Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/texas-family-vacations Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:59:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 Texas Vacations http://toursmaps.com/texas-vacations-2.html http://toursmaps.com/texas-vacations-2.html#respond Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:56:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=225146 Texas Vacations PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE Located on the Gulf Coast of south Texas, 65-mile-long Padre Island National Seashore protects a sizable portion of a long barrier island. It has one of the greatest expanses of wild seashore in the country. The island has beautiful sandy beaches, dunes, and some grasslands. Deer and coyote are among the wildlife, along with shore birds and marine life which includes dolphin and whale. Activities: Fifty-five miles of roadless beach are open to backpacking and hiking, and also to 4-wheel drive vehicles. The swimming here is superb. Fishing is allowed, but hunting is not.

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/texas-vacations-2.html/feed 0 Texas Vacations http://toursmaps.com/texas-vacations.html http://toursmaps.com/texas-vacations.html#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=205392 The Depression, the New Deal, and World War II Texas’s economic expansion continued in the 1920s. Cotton prices fluctuated, but other industries particularly oil experienced a boom. Although oil had been discovered at the Spindletop, near Beaumont, in 1901, Oklahoma was the industry’s center during the first two decades of the century. During World War I, rich fields in Electra, Texas, were found, followed by discoveries in Ranger and Burkburnet. By 1920 the industry had taken off, and Texas vied with Oklahoma for the position of top oil-producing state in the nation. Much of the money from the fields was

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