How do you? Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I hope everyone is off to a great summer. As always, I want to thank everybody for listening.

This podcast has been heard over 15,000 times.

And I hope everyone is entertained and learning a lot about Texas history.

I also hope you'll tell your friends about the show so we can

continue to promote and preserve the history of this great state. Now a couple of

episodes ago I started a series called Texans You Should Know and I'm going to do something similar today.

Today I'm going to start a series I'm calling Texas Towns.

I'd like to feature the stories of Texas Towns past and present and tell some of the

interesting stories from the history

of those towns.

Now of course I'll feature big cities in this series but the word town sounds like more of a

Texas word so I'm going to use it no matter what size community we're talking about.

If you'd like to submit a town for the series please tweet it to

Wiesabout Texas or send it to me through the show's Facebook page

or email me at host at wise about Texas.com.

I picked our first featured town from the last episode.

The last episode of wise about Texas featured a dual between the two men commanding the Texas Army right

after the revolution.

One of the participants, Albert Sidney Johnston, was shot in the hip and he recovered

from that wound in the town of Texana.

So we're going to start this series with the town of Texana.

Besides, shouldn't we start with a town named something like Texana?

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