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Main gate entrance sign 7th Bomb Wing Headquarters Abilene Army Airfield, mid-1940s.. Dyess Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: DYS, ICAO: KDYS, FAA LID: DYS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of downtown Abilene, Texas, and 150 miles (240 km) west of Fort Worth, Texas.
Dan Blocker — attended one year before transferring to Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. Played the role of 'Hoss' on the 1960s American TV show Bonanza [22] Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson — poker legend; Omar Burleson – represented Abilene in the United States Congress from Texas's 17th congressional district from 1947 to 1978.
During the 1960s alone the number of students attending the University of Texas at Austin doubled, reaching 39,000 by 1970. Government employees in Travis County tripled between 1950 and 1970 to 47,300.
The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains, scattered across Texas in parcels. [4]
Guthrie is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in, and the county seat of, King County in the U.S. state of Texas.It is in the northern part of the state, 93 miles (150 km) east of Lubbock and 117 miles (188 km) west of Wichita Falls.
Hendrick Health is a not-for-profit healthcare provider located in Abilene, Texas, United States. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. It provides a comprehensive range of healthcare services, including a medical center licensed for 564 beds. [1] More than 3,000 employees make up the Hendrick team. [1]
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The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...