Unsolved Texas Mysteries

by Wallace O. Chariton, Kevin R. Young, Charlie Eckhardt

What happened to the documents captured in the Alamo? Does a ghost actually haunt the state capitol in Austin? Was John Wilkes Booth killed or did he escape and flee to Central Texas? The authors present the known facts and circumstances of these and other mysteries.

Genres: History

273 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 1991

About the author

Wallace Owen Chariton is a fifth-generation native Texan who was born in Fort worth and raised in San Antonio. He has studied the Lone Star State all his life and is an avid collector of Texanna. He currently lived in Plano, Texas.

Reviews

[John Dembeck]

Fascinating book with stories that could very well be plausible particularly about Kennedy and Johnson.

[QuesterMark]

This book was fascinating. I had no idea that four of the five originals of the Texas Declaration of Independence were missing, one presumed burned in the Capitol fire.

And the other mysteries were no less interesting. Check it out.

[Big H]

A fun, quick read. I especially enjoyed the side note of how German POW's at Camp Maxey referred to armadillos as 'Panzer Swine' until they found out what they were actually called.