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The '''Riesling Trail''' is a 27 kilometre walking and riding track located in the [[Clare Valley]], [[South Australia]]. It runs between [[Auburn]] and [[Clare]], passing through several towns and villages along the way, including [[Leasingham]], [[Watervale]], [[Penwortham, South Australia|Penwortham]] and [[Sevenhill]]. Originally part of the railway branch line which ran between [[Riverton]] in the south to [[Spalding]] in the north, it was abandoned after the [[1983]] [[Ash Wednesday]] bushfires which burnt through the valley and damaged a lot of the trackwork. It was decided that the old railway lines would be removed and in the late 1990s, this part of the route was converted into its present use as a walking and cycle trail. Many of the original rails were sent to [[Queensland]], where they were layed down as tracks used for transporting sugar trains in the north of that state.

The '''''Handbook of Texas''''' is a comprehensive [[encyclopedia]] of [[Texas]] geography, history, and historical persons. The original ''Handbook'' was a two-volume set published in [[1952]], with a supplemental volume in [[1976]]. In [[1996]], the '''''New Handbook of Texas''''' was published, expanding the encyclopedia to six volumes and over 23,000 articles. In [[1999]], the '''Handbook of Texas Online''' went live containing the complete text of the print edition.

The ''Handbook'' is a joint publication of the [[Texas State Historical Association]] and the General Libraries at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].

ISBN 0-87611-151-7

== External link ==

* [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/index.html The Handbook of Texas Online]

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