Texas Highways Magazine

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On Route 66

lthough I realize Lauren Hough’s article was a family reminiscence, a search for corroboration of her late grandfather’s stories, Shamrock should not be mentioned in a Texas travel magazine without referencing some of its other notable tourist sites [“Getaway Driver,” March]. A block west of the Pioneer West Museum is a monument encasing a fragment

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