Hello from Baytown Texas

Howdy Smokin......Welcome to THunting.   Seldom is definitely a wealth of information.   I'm sure you'll be supplying us with some before long also.   Good luck hunting the Texas coast.   Wish I was back there but for now I get to hunt the Arizona deserts (on the plus side, my chances of finding a nugget are better here  )

BA in AZ

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Oh yeah, I want to hit Padre real bad.....in fact there are a couple of spots there I'd really like to hit since I've got a much better detector than the one I had the last time I was on South Padre.

 I don't know how often you get further down the coast, Smokin, but if you have an interest in the area between Corpus and Matagorda Bay, pick up a copy of Texas Forgotten Ports by Keith Guthrie.   (I'd recommend it to you, Seldom, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that you already own at least one copy)

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The book is on it's way along with "Backroads of Texas, 4th Edition: The sites, scenes, history, people, and places your map doesn't tell you about"

Great help! Thanks
I also bookmarked the following books to maybe check out at the library and review down the road.

 Springs of Texas: Volume I (Texas A&M University Agriculture Series) by Gunnar M. Brune, Nina M. Osier
 
 1830 Citizens of Texas: A Genealogy of Anglo-American and Mexican Citizens Taken from Census and Other Records by Gifford E. White
 
 Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University) by David P. Smith
 
 Unsolved Texas Mysteries by Wallace O. Chariton

 Texas Indian Trails by Daniel J. Gelo
I grew up in a very small town in Arkansas. I can't wait to take my detector back home! I can think about at least a dozen old home places to hunt. There are two of them so far into the woods that I doubt anyone has hunted them before. I could be wrong. One of them sits on a friends dads land and the old man threatens to shot anyone who dares to tresspass. But I am pretty confident the old man will let me back on it to do some MDing. I can remember going into the old four room two story house with him when I was probably 14 years old. The walls were papered with new papers from the 1800s. It kinda appeared whoever lived there may have died or had to leave town in a hurry because there was still allot of furniture in the house. I think he was sleeping on one of the old beds at his house.

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Sounds great!!

Thanks for all your help! I hope I return it somehow someday.

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Another book you might want to pick up is Sandbars and Sternwheelers by Pamely Ashworth Puryear and Nath Winfield, Jr.  It was published by Texas A&M University Press (way back while I was still a student there).      The book covers steam navigation on the Brazos.

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