Houston Harte founded, with Bernard Hanks, a regional chain of newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

s which eventually became the media company Harte-Hanks

Harte-Hanks

Harte-Hanks is an advertising and direct marketing company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is particularly associated with the publication of weekly shopper publications, with 13 million circulation weekly in 1100 separate editions of the PennySaver and Flyer each week in California and...

. His son was the newspaper executive, journalist, philanthropist, and conservationist Edward H. Harte

Edward H. Harte

Edward Holmead Harte was an American newspaper executive, journalist, philanthropist, and conservationist. The son of Houston Harte, co-founder of the Harte-Hanks newspaper conglomerate, he had a decades long relationship with that organization...

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He also created the book, "In Our Image" along with Time

Time (magazine)

Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

illustrator

Illustrator

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, Guy Rowe, a collection of Bible

Bible

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 stories published in 1949 by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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. Together they won a Christopher Award

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Harte was instrumental in preserving historic Fort Concho

Fort Concho

Fort Concho is a National Historic Landmark owned and operated since 1935 by the city of San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County in West Texas...

 in San Angelo. He also donated substantially to Angelo State University

Angelo State University

Angelo State University is a public, coeducational, doctoral level degree-granting university located in San Angelo, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1928 as San Angelo College. It gained University status and awarded its first baccalaureate degrees in 1967 and graduate degrees in 1969, the...

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Harte was also a confidant of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

. His association with Johnson led him to end his longstanding friendship with a leading Johnson critic, the historian

Historian

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 J. Evetts Haley

J. Evetts Haley

James Evetts Haley, Sr., usually known as J. Evetts Haley , was a Texas-born political activist and historian who wrote multiple works on the American West, including an enduring biography of legendary cattleman Charles Goodnight...

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