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the Red Man's heritage-arrowheads, arti-
facts, burial grounds, pictographs predating
Christ-are numerous.
Visitors walk the paths that heroes trod,
Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Sam Houston,
Robert E. Lee and hundreds of others. They
tour shrines made memorable by such men,
including the Alamo at San Antonio, the mag-
nificently restored Presidio La Bahia at Go-
liad, San Jacinto Battleground near Houston,
and many a storied cavalry post. (Fort Davis
in the mountains of West Texas, a National
Historic Site, is considered by the National
Park Service to be the nation's most out-
standing example of a western fort.)
San Antonio, to many Texas' most color-
ful city, is observing its 250th birthday in
1968, with an international attraction, Hemis.
Fair '68, opening in April, sure to be a ma-
jor tourist attraction.
Many other Texas institutions please tour-
ists. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area there are
the family amusement park, Six Flags Over
Texas; the State Fair of Texas, the nation's
largest, in Dallas; the Southwestern Exposi-
tion and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth, and
many others. The Texas Almanac lists hun-
dreds of special events, historic sites and
other information in the county descriptions,
under the heading, Tourist Attractions.
Other popular tourist spots include Hous-
ton's Astrodome; Aquarena, underwater show
complex at San Marcos; SeaArama, a sea
circus at Galveston; Alamo Village, a replica
of old San Antonio, at Brackettville; Fiesta
Gardens, featuring water ski shows in a
Mexican setting at Austin's Town Lake; the
outdoor drama, "Texas," at Palo Duro Can- r
yon, and a number of commercial caves, in-
cluding the Caverns of Sonora at Sonora,
Longhorn Cavern near Burnet, Wonder Cave
at San Marcos, Inner Space Caverns at
Georgetown, and Natural Bridge Caverns
at New Braunfels. Other tourist developments
were under construction in 1967, some of them
timed to the opening in April, 1968, of San
Antonio's HemisFair '68. "
Rodeos and dude ranches, museums, the-
aters and orchestras and many other attrac-
tions are listed throughout the Texas Al-
manac, which for more than 110 years has
These scenes show, top to bottom, Houston's
Hermann Park, fishing on the Guadalupe River
and the fall prison rodeo at Texas Department of
Corrections, Huntsville.13
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