Why Stop?: Texas Roadside Markers: A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers

by Betty Dooley Awbrey

This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. This fifth edition includes more than 100 new historical roadside markers with the actual inscriptions. With this book, travelers relive the tragedies and triumphs of Lone Star history.

Genres: History, Reference

568 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1992

Reviews

[Robin Yaklin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is in the car with us. Not all of them get found so it's like a treasure hunt for history.

[QuesterMark · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book comes with us anytime we leave the city. It's designed to enable drivers to zoom past historical markers while still reading the text. We use it more to help us FIND the markers so that we can stop and photograph them.
If a new edition comes out, we will get it, and donate this one to the local library.

[Audri Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great book recommended by a friend when the family went to Texas.