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In the summer of 2013, I left England to spend six months as a Texas tourist. The research trip, funded by the Christine and Ian Bolt Scholarship Fund (University of Kent), involved travelling around the Lone Star State to visit both punishment museums and tourist sites associated with history. In this chapter I will share with you some of my experiences in order to contextualise both the research sites and the stories told within them. More specifically though, this chapter will introduce you to the Texan punishment museums, the tourist sites associated with history, to Texas more generally as a place, and to some of the Texans I met while on my travels. The structure of the chapter follows the order in which I visited each of the locations. We will therefore begin our journey as I did, in Eastland.
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Thurston, H. (2016). Becoming a Texas Tourist. In: Prisons and Punishment in Texas. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53308-1_3
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