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East Texas Travel Guide
East Texas takes life slower than the more urbanized parts of the state. To be sure, all the traditional Texas touchstones are here: cattle grazing on the prairie, pickup trucks rolling down dirt roads, the smell of barbecue smoking in roadside shacks, and a fanatical devotion to high-school football. The region played a role in the rise of Texas oil, starting with the Spindletop Well near Beaumont, which began gushing in 1901. Other oil discoveries followed, including the legendary East Texas Oil Field near Kilgore, which by the 1930s had made Texas the leading producer of "black gold." More »
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