From bringing down the “Duke of Duval” to becoming the first FBI director to be fired, Sessions was a lawman to his core.
A Rio Grande Valley native, Morrow returned to a quiet life of farming after winning three gold medals at the 1956 Olympics.
In an exclusive first look at his new book, journalist Joe Holley revisits the terrible morning when mayhem descended on a rural Texas church.
How ranching and oil families have kept Albany flourishing.
The philanthropic financier who restored a West Texas outpost.
High finance in the High Plains.
In the June 1991 issue, in an article called “Voices From the Dark,” I told the story of Dawn, my mother-in-law. It was an account of her brief career as a singer in Hollywood in the late forties, how schizophrenia had brought that career to a tragic end, and how
Nearly three years after attorney Steve Davis’ body was found, his family still doesn’t know how he died. Thanks to an out-of-court settlement with Comanche County, they probably never will.
A Holocaust survivor saves a West Texas town (maybe).
From Lee Otis Johnson’s arrest to Ben Barnes’s ascent, 1968 was a hell of a year in Texas.
After the latest standoff there�by an armed UFO cultist�you might think so. But on the fifth anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege, the Central Texas community is doing just fine, thank you.
Why are small-town Texas newspapers thriving? Because unlike big-city dailies, they know their readers, and they give them what they want.
The Panhandle goes hog wild.
For El Paso physician Abraham Verghese, writing about life and death in the age of AIDS is a prescription for literary success.
A San Antonio pilot takes her admiration of Amelia Earhart to another plane.
Private prisons lock out the press.
The last surviving Teepee Motel in Texas.
Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us.
Reading the Arlington newspaper war.
Marketing the Texas pecan like the California raisin seems to make good business sense. So why do small Texas growers think it’s a shell game?
Even Cowgirl Hall of Famers get the blues.
Hollywood goes for Big Bend in a big way.
Before Dawn was caught in the terrifying grip of schizophrenia, she had been a talented jazz singer. Now her son-in-law tells her story of no place to go.
A new study of sociologist C. Wright Mills is adequate but uninspired; this year’s Texas Institute of Letters fiction prize has gone to a fine first novel.
