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Agent: The role of Extension expanding

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Aug. 19, 2010 - Texas AgriLife Extension Service has been aiding farmers and ranchers in Texas counties for nearly 100 years and Collin County Extension Agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Rick Maxwell, has been around for 11 of those -- witnessing some big changes. He has seen changes in not only how the Extension service provides information to the public, but also in the clientele themselves.
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Texas Trails: Magical Microbe Killer

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Aug. 19, 2010 - One of the most successful of the frontier quacks, at least from a commercial standpoint, was William Radam, a Prussian immigrant who migrated to Texas, in 1872 and invented a concoction he called the Microbe Killer.

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Texas Trails: Custer in Texas

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August 12, 2010 - It's not hard to figure that Gen. George Armstrong Custer's time in Texas was controversial and paradoxical. His entire military career was that way, starting when he graduated last in his class at West Point in 1861, until the bitter end at Little Big Horn in 1875. Custer stirred controversy and debate in his own time, and historians have continued the debate to the present day. Brilliant or buffoon? Martyr or imbecile? The debate continues.

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Texas Trails: The Real Headless Horseman

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August 5, 2010 - As if the people around the Nueces River deep in Southwest Texas didn't have enough to worry about in the 1850s -- Comanches, Apaches, outlaws, insurgents, rattlesnakes -- along came a headless horseman to further spook the brave souls who lived there. This headless horseman didn't bother, attack or even look at anybody, but the fact that he was there at all provided its own peculiar brand of fear and loathing.
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Texas Trails: A Ship True to Texas

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July 29, 2010 - The most famous boat in Texas history is the Yellow Stone, a steamboat that turned up at some historically opportune times during Texas' fight for independence and then vanished into the mists of a wider history -- its fate unknown.
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