Lake LBJ and the Rebirth of Kingsland

Lake LBJ and the Re-Birth of Kingsland tells the story of a dying town and a rising political star. The former frontier outpost turned railroad resort had almost faded away when Lyndon Johnson entered the political arena. His amazing rise affected Kingsland in many ways even before he bought a lakefront ranch there in 1961, but when he became president in 1963, Kingsland became "the boomingest town in the Lone Star State." This book, from interviews with old-timers and newspaper accounts from those exciting years, tells part of the story of "Lyndon's Lake" and the small town of Kingsland.

Lake LBJ and the Re-Birth of Kingsland tells the story of a dying town and a rising political star. The former frontier outpost turned railroad resort had almost faded away when Lyndon Johnson entered the political arena. His amazing rise affected Kingsland in many ways even before he bought a lakefront ranch there in 1961, but when he became president in 1963, Kingsland became "the boomingest town in the Lone Star State." This book, from interviews with old-timers and newspaper accounts from those exciting years, tells part of the story of "Lyndon's Lake" and the small town of Kingsland. Readers will see a different side of a legendary American president (and the huge impact of his intermittent presence just across the lake that bore his name) while learning almost first-hand of the Kingsland adventure.

John Hallowell is a writer, photographer and editor who has been researching the history of the Texas Hill Country for more than twenty years; he founded the Texas Hill Country magazine in 2004, and currently publishes the Highland Lakes Weekly in Burnet and Llano Counties.