Six Flags Over Texas Opens as Southwest Tourist Draw
Larry Mayran previews Six Flags Over Texas with a grand opening set for August 5 a ten million dollar, 105 acre family park. The feature includes seven epochs of Texas under six flags from Spain to the USA with over 40 attractions and immersive canyon and river journeys.
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Larry Mayran
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Spain
France
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Republic of Texas
Confederacy
U.S.A
Six Flags Over Texas
Comanche Tales of Quack Remedies and Town Folklore
The passage relays frontier superstitions and anecdotes from Comanche including a home remedy from a Comanche doctor, a grandmother’s cure using toads, jokes about an old man with a beard, a graveyard ghost tale, Virgil Reid’s cautionary tales about sociable strangers, hogs hiding in a hollow tree, and odd local schemes such as a rattlesnake full of gold pieces left under a doorway representing a savings plan.
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Comanche
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Cibola
Palo Duro Canyon
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de Los Tejas
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Cavelier de LaSalle
Mississippi
Louis XIV
Alton Davis
W. Armstrong
Daughancy Lou
Arthur Hulen Coker
L. S. Coker
Sidney
South Copperas Baptist Church
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Stoke
Sipe Springs
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Will Randall
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Old Settlers Reunion Committee
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Jane Parker
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Cape Dregs
Macaroni
Reed
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Michigan
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