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5 unusual facts about South Texas


E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, a South Texas native, is an award-winning filmmaker and novelist.

James Anthony Tamayo

On August 9, 2000, he was installed as the bishop of the newly founded Diocese of Laredo in Webb County in South Texas.

Laredo National Bank

LNB had been a component in the development of business and industry along the United States-Mexico border and South Texas.

Mitchell Lake

These efforts aim to change the perceptions of people in the South Texas area who associate the lake with uncleanliness.

Rafael Cárdenas Vela

Stratfor and the San Antonio Express-News released a report on 3 November 2011 putting more context on the arrest of Cárdenas Vela in South Texas.


Anthony George

Set at a mission in South Texas, Sugarfoot learns of a mysterious plot to assassinate Mexican President Benito Juarez.

Battle of the Diablo Mountains

Setting out from Fort Inge in South Texas on October 1, 1854, Captain John G. Walker, in command of around forty men of the Mounted Rifles, headed for the Diablo Mountains region along the Rio Grande border with Mexico.

Santa Gertrudis Independent School District

Santa Gertrudis was formally established in 1917 as one of three schools associated with the King Ranch in South Texas.

The Annulus

The Annulus first crossed paths with El Gato Negro when the hero stumbled across a large drug-trafficking deal in South Texas.


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Alma, Arkansas

Crystal City in Zavala County in south Texas also calls itself the "Spinach Capital of the World" and it too has a Popeye statute in the downtown.

Armando Hinojosa

Other HInojosa sculptures are the Juan Seguin monument at Seguin Central Park in Seguin, Texas, the Knute Rockne and Ara Parseghian statues at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, and the life-size "Among Friends There Are No Borders" statue at Laredo International Airport, which depicts a South Texas vaquero and a Mexican charro sharing a campfire.

Arthur Fehr

Floor coverings, walls and exterior sunscreens were fashioned from structural tile fired from the deep red clay of D'Hanis in South Texas.

Daniel Showalter

In March 1864, Lt. Col. Daniel Showalter joined the force under John Salmon Ford and led his regiment in fighting around Brownsville, Texas, to drive the Union troops out of South Texas.

Dark territory

The Union Pacific Railroad uses dark territory on the Sharon Springs Subdivision in western Kansas, the Lost Springs Subdivision between Herington, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas, the Brownsville Subdivision in south Texas, as well as on several under-used lines in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Falfurrias, Texas

Falfurrias and Brooks County were featured in a 2014 Latino USA story on illegal immigration in South Texas.

Griest

Stephanie Griest (born 1974), Chicana author and activist from South Texas

Harry Whittington

On Saturday, February 11, 2006, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Whittington was accidentally shot by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney during a quail hunting trip, at a ranch in south Texas owned by Katharine Armstrong.

John A. Brieden

Brieden is a native of south Texas and graduated from Calallen High School before going to Texas A&M to serve in the Corps of Cadets.

McKinney North High School

In October 2009, Theret joined the Laredo Independent School District in Laredo in Webb County in south Texas as the new executive director of curriculum and instruction, under the supervision of A. Marcus Nelson, the district superintendent.

Paco Betancourt

By the late 1940s and early 1950s, local music of the day—the early Tejano and conjunto music of South Texas—had become a popular genre and good business for record producers and jukebox operators.

Richmond P. Hobson

A small town in south Texas was renamed from Castine to Hobson after he spoke there on a railroad tour.

Rob Todd

Todd was born in Kirksville, Missouri, and attended the University of Texas at Austin and the South Texas College of Law.

Ruthe B. Cowl

During a trip to Mexico during the Christmas school vacation in 1952, the family stopped in the Rio Grande border city of Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas to visit people whom they had met through mutual friends in Dallas.

South Texas Archives and Special Collections

The South Texas Archives also houses the extensive collections of State Senator Carlos. F. Truan; State Representative Irma Rangel, and early South Texas political boss and County Judge, J.T. Canales.

South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases

The South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) was founded by the University of Texas at San Antonio at the former Brooks Air Force Base site in San Antonio, TX.

South Texas College of Law

South Texas College of Law publishes several student-edited journals of legal scholarship, including Corporate Counsel Review, Currents: International Trade Law Journal, and South Texas Law Review.

South Texas Law Review

South Texas Law Review has published articles written by five Justices from the Supreme Court of the United States: Arthur Goldberg, William J. Brennan, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, and Clarence Thomas.

South Texas Oilfield Expo

The South Texas Oilfield Expo is an oil and gas industry trade show held annually at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.

Steve Asmussen

Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas.

Timothy P. Marshall

His first official tornado damage survey was in Grand Island, Nebraska, in 1980 and his first hurricane damage survey was Hurricane Allen in south Texas later that year.

WellMed Medical Management, Inc.

George M. Rapier III, M.D. founded the company in 1990 and continues to be the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of the largest physician-led healthcare delivery network for seniors in South Texas.