Please Consider Supporting These Organizations:

BikeTexas, founded in 1991 as the Texas Bicycle Coalition, has programs ranging from BikeTexas Safe Routes to School, helping make neighborhoods safe for kids to ride and walk to school, to the trail docs, working to establish more mountain bike trails on public and private land, to events and signage to aid road and commuter cyclists, to the Texas Bicycle Tourism Trails initiative, an effort to build a state-wide network of cycling routes based on historic, ethnic and natural heritage.

BikeTexas has a very active advocacy component and has established working relationships with elected officials,as well as local, state, and federal agencies, including the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT.)

Organized on March 2, 1897, the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is the oldest learned society in the state. Its mission is to foster the appreciation, understanding, and teaching of the rich and unique history of Texas and by example and through programs and activities encourage and promote research, preservation, and publication of historical material affecting the state of Texas. TSHA has a excellent search engine on all aspects of Texas History: The Handbook of Texas Online. Whether it be persons, peoples, events, places including cities and counties, natural features such as rivers, crossings , mountains and escarpments, and many other broad topics, you can find it all there. Keywords for the search engine can be as specific as "Sam Houston", "San Jacinto", “Llano Estacado” and "Comanches" or as general as "railroads", "Spanish Exploration” and “urbanization." Three of my favorite keywords are "trail", "road" and "trace."

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