Chisholm Trail - a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s

Big Bend - a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande

Big Bend National Park - a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife

Guadalupe Mountains National Park - a national park in Texas that has the highest point in Texas; includes desert wilderness and the ancient Apache hunting grounds

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

Gulf States - a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas

Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Abilene - a city in central Texas

Amarillo - a city in the northern panhandle of Texas

Arlington - a city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth

Austin, capital of Texas - state capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas

Beaumont - a city of southeastern Texas near Houston

Brownsville - a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande near its mouth into the Gulf of Mexico; has a channel that accommodates oceangoing ships

Bryan - a town of east central Texas

Corpus Christi - a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico

Dallas - a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields

Del Rio - a town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande west of San Antonio

El Paso - a city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez

Fort Worth - a city in northeastern Texas (just west of Dallas); a major industrial center

Galveston - a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island

Galveston Island - an island at the entrance of Galveston Bay

Garland - a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas)

Houston - the largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Laredo - a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande

Lubbock - a city in northwest Texas south of Amarillo

Lufkin - a town in eastern Texas

McAllen - a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande

Midland - a town in west central Texas

Odessa - a city in western Texas

Paris - a town in northeast Texas

Plano - a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas)

San Angelo - a town in west central Texas; formerly a notorious frontier town

San Antonio - a city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers

Sherman - a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border

Texarkana - a town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas

Tyler - a town in northeast Texas

Victoria - a town in southeast Texas southeast of San Antonio

Waco - a city in east central Texas

Wichita Falls - a city in north central Texas near the Oklahoma border

Brazos, Brazos River - a river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico

Canadian River, Canadian - a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma

Colorado River, Colorado - a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico

Galveston Bay - an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas south of Houston

Guadalupe Mountains - a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains

Llano Estacado - a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains

Pecos, Pecos River - a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas