Editing Bandera County, Texas (section)

===20th century===
In 1920, Cora and Ed Buck launch Bandera's tourist industry by taking boarders at their ranch,<ref>{{cite news|last=Wise|first=Dan|title=Celebrate Bandera County honors Bandera County's dude ranches|newspaper=The Bandera Bulletin|date=July 25, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Old Buck Ranch|url=http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5019003694|work=Texas State Historical Markers|publisher=William Nienke, Sam Morrow|access-date=November 28, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301061934/http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5019003694|archive-date=March 1, 2012}}</ref> and by 1933, Frontier Times Museum opens to the public.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pohlen |first=Jerome |url=https://archive.org/details/oddballtexasguid0000pohl |title=Oddball Texas: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places |publisher=Chicago Review Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-55652-583-4 |pages=140–141 |chapter=Frontier Times Museum |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Frontier Times Museum|url=http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5019002071|work=Texas State Historical Markers|publisher=William Nienke, Sam Morrow|access-date=November 28, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314205029/http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5019002071|archive-date=March 14, 2012}}</ref>

During the last 30 years of the 20th century, with an estimated 80% of its land dedicated to farming and ranching industries, the county government facilitates three major actions to preserve its natural heritage: the [[Lost Maples State Natural Area]] opens to the public in 1979,<ref>{{cite web|title=Lost Maples State Park|url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lost_maples|publisher=Texas Parks and Wildlife Department|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref> the [[Hill Country State Natural Area]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Coppedge|first=Clay|title=Bandera-Hill Country State Natural Preserve|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/ClayCoppedge/Hill-Country-State-Natural-Area.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref> opens to the public in 1984,<ref>{{cite web|title=Hill Country State Natural Area|url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/hill_country|publisher=Texas Parks and Wildlife Department|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028100800/http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/hill_country|archive-date=October 28, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Nature Conservancy purchases {{convert|1400|acre|km2}} of the Love Creek Ranch<ref>{{cite book|last=Permenter|first=Paris|title=Day Trips from San Antonio|year=2006|publisher=GPP Travel|isbn=978-0-7627-3868-7|author2=Bigley, John|page=149}}</ref> from Baxter and Carol Adams to create the Love Creek Preserve in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Love Creek Preserve|url=http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/texas/preserves/art25180.html|publisher=The Nature Conservancy|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref>