Weird Texas: Your Travel Guide to Texas's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

by Heather Shade, Rob Riggs, Wesley Treat, et al.

Book Overview

Think you know Texas? Sure, there's the Alamo, the Cowboys, armadillos, Longhorns, Aggies, chili, the Space Center, and lots and lots of bluebonnets. And everybody knows not to mess with us. But there's something else, something we've got more of than any other state-we've got a whole lot of...weirdness. Yep, the Lone Star State has a vast amount of strange people and unusual sites, and they burst forth from every page of the biggest, most bizarre...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402732805
• ISBN13: 9781402732805
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 2.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Stuff!

I first saw this book at my daughter's house and decided we needed one of our own. When my teenage grandson would come over that is the first book he would pick up and look at every time he visited, so we bought him one for Christmas. It's full of interesting and odd facts about the state of Texas. We recently bought Weird Carolinas and it is just as interesting!

Great. of course.

Know someone moving to Texas? Live there and want to run off for a few days? This is the book for anyone who finds themselves in the Lone Star state and has an appetite for the peculiar.

Condition

This item was described as "like new." When I opened it, I discovered a hand-written inscription on the fly-leaf. It had apparently been given as a thank-you gift by someone who wrote their thanks in the book. This was rather disappointing, as I was buying it for the same reason. I solved the problem by pasting a thank-you card inside the fly-leaf over the writing.

Weird Texas

Weird Texas was a gift for my boyfriend in Texas. He loved it. He couldn't put it down. He actually knew of a few of the stories and said they were very acurate. If you are scared of ghosts, definately don't read the ghost section. I recommed all the Weird books they always make for a good adventure with your friends.

Weird Review

What an outstanding book. This was one of those "stay up all nighters"! It has absolutely GREAT graphics to go along with the multitude of funny and weird Texas stories. I'm proud to have this on my coffee table and my kids are going to get their copies for Christmas. I'm not sure what story I enjoyed most. Maybe it was the young couple leaving East Texas on Hwy 281 when they were approached in broad daylight by a high speed ball of light. Maybe it was the stories about the cannibal Karankawa Indians living in the Texas swamps. Maybe it was all the bats in Austin. Maybe it was the Bigfoot critters in the Sour Lake oil swamps. Maybe it was all the different Billy the Kids. Maybe it was all the other great stories. Whatever, ENJOY!