Travelers between Fort Worth and Abilene on the scenic U.S. Highway 180 and TX Highway 351 now can pop a CD in their vehicles CD player and entertain and educate themselves with colorful stories about the Texas frontier.

Windshield History: Tales of the Texas Frontier from Fort Worth to Abilene is a new audio publication produced through the Cultural & Heritage Tourism Program, an initiative Abilene Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council. Don Frazier, Ph.D., executive director of the McWhiney Historic Research Foundation served as chairman of the project.

“The Windshield History CD is a great way to see and understand this part of Texas and to realize that so much history has occurred just off the highway in places that drivers may have passed dozens of times but never fully recognized. It is a way of getting people reacquainted with a region they may have never fully known until now,” Frazier said. “Plus, it tells an entertaining story that just melts away those long Texas miles.”

As a historian, Frazier thought the first CD in this series should focus on the route that the early settlers traveled before the interstate system. U.S. Highway 180 through Weatherford, Mineral Wells, Breckenridge and Albany is along the path used by pioneers looking for a better life out west. “The immigrant route to the west seemed like a logical place to start because most travelers coming to West Texas headed toward the sunset, just like generations of Americans before them,” Frazier said. “Now drivers can share the thrill and the danger, the adventure and satisfaction of discovering their own piece of the west.”

Windshield History: Tales of the Texas Frontier from Fort Worth to Abilene is available for only $6 at the Abilene Convention & Visitors Bureau, 800-727-7704; or order online from Texas Star Trading Company.