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Bandera, Texas

by | Jun 26, 2010 | Travel & Preservation

A down-home kind of place where you can always dance the two step.
When you ask Genie Strickland, a fifth-generation Banderan, how a town of 957 people can produce so much Western heritage entertainment, she breaks out into a smile. “From the history books on Bandera we have faced Indian raids, floods, droughts, boll weevils and failed crops,” she says. “The  Hill Country offers hard scrabble land less suited for agri


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