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March 1993

Table of Contents

Features

It may be more than 800,000 acres, but you can easily cut Big Bend down to size. Here’s how.

Top-flight wear (from hat to shoes) for rugged adventures on the Texas terrain.

He waffled about the Senate seat, then sought safe harbor in Bill Clinton’s Cabinet. Why did Henry Cisneros choose HUD over headlines? Only he knows for sure.

All across Texas, vandals are searching for ancient treasures by looting Indian campgrounds—including the one on my family’s ranch.

Jimmy Johnson said he’d see us in the Super Bowl, and he was right. Now he is a hero, and his critics are eating crow.

His wives! His lives! A bountiful birthday guide to Sam Houston, Texas’ ultimate hero.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Food

How a cut of meat from the wrong side of the street rose to culinary stardom, plus a guide to Texas’ most authentic fajitas.

Lifestyle

Twice a week I strip for strange men in a topless bar. I worry about just two things: weirdos and what my mother thinks.

Reporter

Reporter

Will public housing in East Texas be integrated? Not if the Klan has its way.

Reporter

A big new Dallas bookstore with amenities is a hit with the reading public.

Reporter

NASA scientists ignored amateur Forrest Mims—until he proved them wrong.

Miscellany

Roar of the Crowd

State Secrets

State of the Art

Recipes

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