The home, church, and state motifs are reflected in the key ... and in 1953 it was designated as the official Seal of Texas Tech. In 1972, the university erected a 12-foot red granite version ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Did you know that peach cobbler is the official state cobbler of Texas? Or that Texas blue topaz is the official state gem? Or that petrified palmwood is the official state stone ...

The most recent “tangible representations of Texas’s cultural and historical heritage” warranting canonization are the 1847 Colt Walker pistol (the state’s official handgun), the Bowie ...