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Kentucky native Robert Runyon became a self-taught creative master in photography soon after arrriving in Brownsville. His accomplishments included:
- producing his own line of postcards
- earning fame as one of America's first war photojournalists
- becaming recognized as a highly successful commercial/portrait photographer.

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Beginning in 1918, Runyon branched out into a new intellectual area and taught himself the science of botany. He set out to catalog all native flora in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Fifty years later, he had:
- identified more than two dozen rare plants
- championed preservation of Texas' only native palm
- saved from extinction Texas' rarest tree
- spearheaded beautification efforts in borderlands' parks, resacas, and homes
- built a world-renowned herbarium and botanical library.

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Native Texan Prentice Alexander Newman on January 3, 1909, in San Antonio became the first person south of Kitty Hawk, NC,

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