About Texana Tours

Texana Tours is owned/operated by Richard Cook, Certified Professional Tour Guide

WhatsNew

Happy New Year

Last year was a banner year for Texana Tours and 2012 looks even better. We are already busy scheduling tours and we are ready to welcome them all with Texas charm and hosplitality.

CurrentNews

Texana Tours has been choosen to be the tourguide for an upcoming episode of the TLC's "Little Couple". Richard is to be featured in an upcoming episode as the tourguide for Jan and Bill as they entertain their families on a visit to Houston during the holidays

RecentEvents

QuiltMusuem

With the grand opening of the Texas Quilt Museum in LaGrange, there has been a renewed interest in that area of Texas. Many of the first settlers of that area, Germans/Chech immigrated here and gave us so many great places to visit. Painted Churches, Kolaches, Quilts, and much more. Texana Tours has a new signature tour of this area, "Deep In The Heart of Texas Tour"

About Us

Team Bio:

	Richard is fourth generation Texan and a native Houstonian. As a Certified Professional Tour Guide and Past President of the Professional Tour Guide Association of Houston, he is a former Director At Large of the PTGAH. He operates a tour business, TexanaTours, in Houston and specializes in a basic discovery tour of Houston, revealing both old and modern aspects of the city. Richard graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a degree in Political Science. Considered by many as a true expert on Texas History, his passion for Texas and Texas History goes beyond the academic. Richard can relate the “Texas Mystique to all, explaining its origin, popularity and most of all, how it is changing with today’s political climate. As a well known Texas History aficionado who specializes in Texas history tours, He can take you to all important Texas history sites and show you right where it happened. He also specializes in Texas oil history. He is one of the few tour guides that can take you into the oil field and show the spots of the discovery wells that made Texas the oil center of the universe. Richard was recently featured at the David Dike Fine Art Gallery's "An Auction of Texas Art" in Dallas. As a guest speaker, Richard's presentation "SpindleTop & Patillo Higgins: For the want of a good Brick" gave an in-depth glimpse into the history of Texas Oil. Richard has also been featured in several travel articles on Houston. Recently Richard was featured in the article, " Texas Rising, a Tale of Two Cities, Houston and Galveston, " in the City Style and Living Magazine Canada International Edition, Winter 2009-2010 magazine. In this article, Richard was the featured tour guide for Houston. In 2011, Richard was featured on french television with french television/movie personality, Gerald Klein in Mr. Klen's America Series. Mr. Klein did an hour long segment on each state and Richard was featured on the segment about Texas. In 2012, Richard is to be featured on TLC's "Little Couple". Richard conducts a tour for Jan and Bill as their families visit for the holidays.