Stephen Harrigan
Stephen Harrigan is the author of nine books, including the award-winning novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton. His most recent book is the forthcoming The Eye of the Mammoth, a career-spanning collection of his essays, many of which were written for Texas Monthly. He is also a screenwriter who has written many movies for television.
Stories
You can lead a herd to water, but can you make a miniseries faithful to Larry McMurtry’s Texas classic?
We were in love in a way I didn’t quite trust. There was nothing grand or electric about it, just a steady, deepening insistence.
By turning two tiny dots into two huge hippos, James Marshall made an indelible mark on children’s literature, and little people laughed happily ever after.
The blackland prairie of the old South meets the wide-open spaces of the wild West at Texas’ great geologic divide.
For team ropers on the All-Girl circuit, the true reward is the happiness of pursuit.
Henry Cisneros has the vision and charisma of a born leader. Does it matter that he has the soul of an Aggie?
In Texas, survivors of this life-and-death operation wear their scars like medals of honor.
A museum in Texas is the last place Jacques-Louis David would expect to find his late masterpiece, but we’re glad it’s here.
The Chihuahuan Desert is a place of extremes, where the visitor not only observes but participates in the struggle for life and death.
Somervell County suffers an identity crisis; an Alamo freak takes twenty years to build a diorama; Merlin Tuttle is batty.
Unlike the Alamo, which can seem as remote and mysterious as Stonehenge, the San Jacinto battlefield has few secrets. Its history lies close at hand.