Ebook: Texas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional & Nefarious

Someof these quirky true stories might surprise even the most proud Texan. Austinsat the first all-woman state supreme court in the nation in 1925. A utopian colonythrived in Kristenstad during the Great Depression. Bats taken from the Brackenand Ney Caves and Devil’s Sinkhole were developed as a secret weapon that viedwith the Manhattan Project to shorten World War II. In Slaton in 1922, Germanpriest Joseph M. Keller was kidnapped, tarred and feathered amid anti-Germanfervor following World War I. Author E.R. Bills offers this collection oftrials, tribulations and intrigue that is sure to enrich one’s understanding ofthe biggest state in the Lower Forty-eight.