Dallas Historical Society presents Brown Bag Lecture: Unforgettable Texans with Bartee Haile

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History books burst at the seams with stories about Houston, Travis, Crockett, and other icons of Texas history. Yet many of the Lone Star State’s fascinating figures, well known in life but forgotten in death, remain obscure by omission. This scintillating company includes a World War I spy who became a movie star, the first gringo matador, a West Texas tent showman and the husband-and-wife trick-shot act that amazed audiences for forty years.

Some characters cut across the common narrative, like the admiral whose advice might have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor, the one and only Republican congressman in the first half of the twentieth century, the Klansman Texans elected to the U.S. Senate and the businessman who wrote the longest English-language novel in complete secrecy. Popular columnist and author Bartee Haile brings to life some of the most intriguing Texans who ever slipped through the cracks of history.

Attendees are welcome to bring their own “brown bag” lunch to enjoy during the presentation.

History books burst at the seams with stories about Houston, Travis, Crockett, and other icons of Texas history. Yet many of the Lone Star State’s fascinating figures, well known in life but forgotten in death, remain obscure by omission. This scintillating company includes a World War I spy who became a movie star, the first gringo matador, a West Texas tent showman and the husband-and-wife trick-shot act that amazed audiences for forty years.

Some characters cut across the common narrative, like the admiral whose advice might have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor, the one and only Republican congressman in the first half of the twentieth century, the Klansman Texans elected to the U.S. Senate and the businessman who wrote the longest English-language novel in complete secrecy. Popular columnist and author Bartee Haile brings to life some of the most intriguing Texans who ever slipped through the cracks of history.

Attendees are welcome to bring their own “brown bag” lunch to enjoy during the presentation.

History books burst at the seams with stories about Houston, Travis, Crockett, and other icons of Texas history. Yet many of the Lone Star State’s fascinating figures, well known in life but forgotten in death, remain obscure by omission. This scintillating company includes a World War I spy who became a movie star, the first gringo matador, a West Texas tent showman and the husband-and-wife trick-shot act that amazed audiences for forty years.

Some characters cut across the common narrative, like the admiral whose advice might have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor, the one and only Republican congressman in the first half of the twentieth century, the Klansman Texans elected to the U.S. Senate and the businessman who wrote the longest English-language novel in complete secrecy. Popular columnist and author Bartee Haile brings to life some of the most intriguing Texans who ever slipped through the cracks of history.

Attendees are welcome to bring their own “brown bag” lunch to enjoy during the presentation.

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WHERE

Hall of State at Fair Park
3939 Grand Ave.
Dallas, TX 75210
https://www.dallashistory.org/education/brown-bag-lectures/

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Admission is free.
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