Texas Heritage Trails Program
The Texas Historical Commission administers this state-wide heritage tourism program. The goals of the program are to promote heritage tourism and historic preservation. The state of Texas is divided up into ten heritage regions: Texas Brazos Trail, Texas Forest Trail, Texas Forts Trail, Texas Hill Country Trail, Texas Independence Trail, Texas Lakes Trail, Texas Mountain Trail, Texas Pecos Trail, Texas Plains Trail, and the Texas Tropical Trail. In 2005 the Heritage Trails Program won the Preserve America Presidential award for exemplary accomplishment in the preservation and sustainable use of America's heritage assets, which has enhanced community life while honoring the Nation's history.
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“Worn down by the hoofs of millions of half-wild Texas cattle driven along it to the railheads in Kansas, the trail was a bare, brown, dusty strip hundreds of miles long, lined with the bleaching bones of longhorns and cow ponies. Here and there a broken-down chuck wagon or a small mound marking the grave of some cowhand buried by his partners “on the lone prairie” gave evidence to the hardships of the journey.”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)
“Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1928)
“But one day he met a man who was a whole lot badder,
And now he’s dead, and we ain’t none the sadder.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)