Texas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series) - Softcover

Kelso, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762760702 ISBN 13: 9780762760701

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, 2011

Synopsis

The definitive collection of Texas's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Texas residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

About this title

About the Author

John Kelso has been a humor columnist for the Austin American-Statesman in Austin, Texas, since 1977. He received the Headliners Award for best Texas columnist in 1998. In 1980 he ran for president of the United States--and lost.

Sharry Buckner has written travel guides for exploring Texas with kids, including Exploring Texas with Children and Exploring Austin. She also wrote the Dallas/Fort Worth City*Smart Guidebook for Avalon Travel.

From the Back Cover

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Lone Star State has to offer!

 

Whether you’re a born-and-raised Texan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Texas Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as John Kelso and Sharry Buckner take you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Lone Star State.

Visit 12,000-pound rhinos and hippos along Interstate 35; Stephenville’s fiberglass Holstein, Moo-La; and the too-many-to-count antlers on a 15-foot deer-horn tree.

 Meet a cross-dressing, three-time mayoral candidate and a corn-artifact-collecting connoisseur.

Check out a sprinkling of oatmeal flakes from the sky and a blow-the-biggest-bubble chewing gum contest—a sticky situation you’ll love getting into!

Edition details

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762760702
• ISBN 13: 9780762760701
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Buckner Sharry