The Texas Odd Files: Three Strange but True Stories from Texas History

Texas history is considerably stranger than the textbook version.

Camels in the U.S. Army.
A cannon fired over government archives.
A frontier dispute that divided communities into rival factions.

The Texas Odd Files is an illustrated history collection from Living Grove Systems Studio, created for curious readers who learn best when the story is interesting enough to follow on its own.

Each file takes a real episode from Texas history and turns it into an accessible visual story, connecting the people, places, dates, decisions, and consequences that made the event worth remembering.

This Collection Includes

The Real Story Behind Finny

Explore the extraordinary U.S. Army Camel Experiment and the camels brought to Texas during the nineteenth century.

The Archive War: Austin's Cannon

Meet Angelina Eberly and discover why an attempt to quietly remove the Republic of Texas archives from Austin ended with a cannon being fired in the middle of the night.

The Regulator-Moderator War

Travel to East Texas between 1839 and 1844, where weak institutions, private justice, old grudges, and competing factions produced one of the state's strangest early conflicts.

Why The Texas Odd Files?

History becomes easier to understand when curiosity gets there first.

The Texas Odd Files were designed to reconnect history with the thing that makes it memorable: story.

Instead of reducing the past to disconnected names and dates, each file gives readers a clear path through what happened, who was involved, what was at stake, and why the event still deserves attention.

Use the collection for:

• Texas history enrichment

• homeschool learning

• classroom supplemental material

• independent reading

• family learning

• discussion starters

• deeper historical research

• curious adults who simply enjoy discovering strange pieces of the past

No test required.

Just three remarkable stories that happen to be true.

What You'll Receive

One digital ZIP file containing three illustrated Texas Odd Files.

Digital product only. No physical item will be shipped.

Price: $8.99