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June 1998

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Features

The birds of High Island. The wilderness of Matagorda Island. The untamed beach of Boca Chica. These and other hidden treasures await you-if you know where to look.

In suburban Fort Worth the frail psyche of a football prodigy collided with the crazed ambition of his dad, who himself had been a high school football star way back when. The consequences were deadly.

Ten years after the filming of the miniseries Lonesome Dove, screenwriter Bill Wittliff shares his photographic memories of life on the set.

To say he’s the strong, silent type is something of an understatement. Unlike most baseball stars, Texas Ranger Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez is all action and no talk—and that makes him one of the game’s real gems.

Even by South Texas standards, the undoing of Starr County sheriff Eugenio Falcón, Jr., was one for the books.

Bypass surgery with almost no pain, and you get to go home three days later? Don’t have a coronary: It’s happening right now, in Texas.

Columns

Business

The man who runs Continental Airlines is a rough-and-tumble Navy ex who talks more like a maintenance man than a corporate chief-but Gordon Bethune knows what he’s doing, and he gets results.

Behind the Lines

Crime in Mexico hits home.

Profile

Redford, shmedford: If you think the aging Hollywood hunk is anything like the prototypical horse whisperer, you haven’t met Del Rio native Ernesto Rojas Serna.

Sports

When Austinite Paul Carrozza says he doesn’t like a running shoe, the shoe companies listen- and so do hordes of running enthusiasts in Texas and around the country, who know him to be the sport’s newest guru.

Reporter

Reporter

The poor quality of health care in the state’s penal system is enough to make you sick. Plus: Inside Tex Moncrief’s IRS mess; a River Oaks bookie is tried for murder; UT’s writing program achieves Texas-size success; and things get woolly for thestate’s mohair producers.

Reporter

A River Oaks bookie is tried for murder.

Reporter

UT’s writing program achieves Texas-size success.

Reporter

Things get woolly for the state’s mohair producers.

Going To Press

Hot Box

Hot CDs and Hot Books

Low Talk

Inside Tex Moncrief’s IRS mess.

Miscellany

The Inside Story

Texas Primer

Why was the former governor Pa Ferguson nicknamed Farmer Jim?

Roar of the Crowd

Singing Willie Nelson's praises; neddling a former drug user.

State Secrets

Recipes

The lavender-dusted quail at Laurels in Dallas deserves, er, laurels.

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