🎧 #YouTube served up some #ZZTop. I thought: "Haven't heard or read the name "Greg Abbott" since escaping the #hellsite.

▶️ In 1975, when ZZTop recorded "Heard it on the X," #Texas had a #Democratic #Governor, Dolph Briscoe Jr. An upstanding and benevolent child of Texas. Briscoe was a richaf rancher—at one point the largest landowner in the state—but he extended a hand back, down, across the aisle to lift others. As #Democrats do.

#TxPol #TXHistory #ThePeople https://youtu.be/zvgGNaTH7ds

Does anyone have book recommendations for Texas history? Somebody new to these parts asked me.
I recommended some titles that are topic specific, but didn't really have a general intro suggestion.
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In 1904, 118 years ago this month, the first paving of Austin’s Congress Avenue began.

From The Austin Statesman, Tuesday, November 29, 1904, p. 5, c. 3: “Eighty thousand brick have been ordered by Brown & Dabney from the Thurber Brick Company…Present indications point to the laying of the first brick within a week or 10 days at the outside.”

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