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Features that move the reader
Magazines can take me out of town and around the state.
Sometimes it’s writing humorous sailing anecdotes for Latitudes & Attitudes;
Sometimes it’s profiling Texas icons like the Steam Boat Yellowstone, “the boat that saved Texas” for western lore in Wild West;
Sometimes it may be telling the Fort Worth story to visitors through Fort Worth TX magazine;
And other times it’s capturing glimpses of Texans and their ways, hideouts and hangouts—life along the back roads and by-ways of Texas cities and towns--for American Cowboy.
A new Texas Dame feature
Published right before the holidays in Persimmon Hill, the magazine of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (www.nationalcowboymuseum.org) and is a story on one of my favorite Texas Dames, “A Front Door Seat to Texas Revolution .”
Featured in this “Texas” issue is Peggy McCormick, one of “the Ol’ Three Hundred,” Stephen F. Austin’s early colonists. I found her story in the Texas archives amid Sam Houston correspondence and then more in Austin’s files at the University of Texas. Where she settled became the battleground on which Texas won its Independence. The San Jacinto Monument rises from her 1820’s to 1850’s cattle ranch.
Contact:
Carmen Goldthwaite
P. O. Box 470841
Fort Worth, Tx 76147
H 817-737-6958
M 817-726-0412
Twitter: @writingtxdame
E-mail: carmengoldthwaite@sbcglobal.net