Camp Mystic, Guadalupe River
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Camp Mystic has deep roots with Texas politicians, including former first lady Laura Bush, who worked as a counselor there, and former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who sent his daughters there.
When the floodwaters came crashing through Camp Mystic over Fourth of July weekend, it wasn’t a rescue team that reached
About 700 children were at Camp Mystic when flash floods hit on Friday. Here's what we know about the storied summer camp for girls.
Robert Earl Keen, a Texas music legend who has a ranch in Kerrville and whose daughters attended Camp Mystic, talks about the impact of July 4 floods.
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For close to 100 years, the eight-year-old's family members spent their summers at camps along the region's glittering hills and riverbanks, including the private all-girls Christian summer camp tucked along a bend in the Guadalupe River. Blakely was one of 27 Camp Mystic campers who lost their lives after floods devastated Kerr County July 4.
In one of the deadliest floods in Texas history, a mother's worst fears turned into grateful tears when she reunited with her two sons after they survived a harrowing experience at a camp near the Guadalupe River.