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History Detectives: Season 1: Episode 7

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History Detectives: Special Investigations
Texas

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PBS | Air Date: August 4, 2003
Starring: Wes Cowan, Elyse Luray, Gwen Wright, Tukufu Zuberi
Summary: The Depot That Made Dallas
The Place: Dallas, Texas
A local historian calls in the History Detectives to find out if a disused depot was the first railroad station in Texas and if it was responsible for putting Dallas on the map. Mexico Peso The Place: San Antonio, Texas Searching through his great-grandfather's belongings, a SanThe Depot That Made Dallas
The Place: Dallas, Texas
A local historian calls in the History Detectives to find out if a disused depot was the first railroad station in Texas and if it was responsible for putting Dallas on the map.

Mexico Peso
The Place: San Antonio, Texas
Searching through his great-grandfather's belongings, a San Antonio man finds Mexican currency and suspects a link to infamous bandits Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. Did this money play a part in the Mexican revolution in the 1910s and how did it end up in the hands of a quiet family man?

Pirate Spyglass
The Place: Texas City, Texas
Jean Lafitte was a fearsome pirate, an ingenious privateer, and a war hero. A Texas library is donated a spyglass said to be handed down from Lafitte to his ship captain. Was it?… Expand
Genre(s): Reality, Suspense, Documentary
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