Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches)
Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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blowsthis way all the time/ he gets for his answer, It blows theother way a part of the time. Cyclones sometimes occur,but rarely, and after the appearance of one in a region thereis a tremendous and prairie-dog-like activity in the construc-tion of semi-subterranean storm cellars, which are so in-viting to centipedes and snakes that they are usually foundin them when the proper owners seek refuge from a storm.Tropical storms of great violence sometimes, but rarely,wander to the Texas coast, and at long intervals do greatdamage. In 1875 the little town of Indianola, at the westend of Matagorda Bay, was entirely swept away, with theloss of nearly two hundred lives. The great storm of 1900,which swept the sea over the island and the city of Galveston,drowned several thousand people and destroyed an im-mense amount of property. The storm of 1915 caused theloss of several hundred lives and a great deal of property alongthe coast. As a home of the white race Texas is so healthful that she
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Indian Blankets on the Campus of the A. & M. College of Texas A Photograph of Wild Deer Made in Southwest Texas Rain Lilies on University of Texas Campus, Austin

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