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 Early August Digging Texas Outlaws: Wild West outlaws died young and left good looking corpses, but is that any reason to keep digging them up? |
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Early July The Heat is a Killer: The summer heat can be a rude awakening for anyone visiting Texas, even a native returning from years in cooler climes. For outlaw Sam Bass, a native of the Denton area, July 1878 was a cruelly warm welcome home. |
Middle July San Antonio's Missions Mission: trips for the virtual tourist. |
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Early June Shipwreck Search: The Amiable isn't the first shipwreck that novelist Clive Cussler and his National Underwater and Marine Agency have uncovered in Texas. |
Middle June Juneteenth Heroes: Juneteenth is a reminder that perhaps as many as three in five cowboys were black, and African-American cowboys were often among the most-talented cowpunchers you could find. |
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Early May New Words of the West: Waiting for Cormac McCarthy and other new words of the West including a new LBJ bio, a handful of mysteries, and Marion Winik’s The Lunchbox Chronicles. |
Middle May Big Stories from the Big State: Celebrate Texas Writers Month with reviews of three new history books, including a unique study of one of the weirdest episodes in the short history of the Republic of Texas. |
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Early April Another Day, Another Dollar: The recently-released film The Newton Boys, the saga of America’s most successful train robbing gang, premiered at Austin’s Paramount theater on March 14. |
Middle April The Border Roll Incident: John Wesley Hardin was a controversial and charismatic character for the tumultuous times in which he lived, and remains a fascinating figure today. |
Early March Whooping it Up: The first of the month means you've got a measly 45 days to untangle your income tax, and even less time to see the great, majestic and endangered whooping cranes while they're still in Texas. |
Middle March Historic Haven: An ecological gold mine and a monument to Texas history, the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge consists of 11,950 acres of land along the Rio Grande River. |
Early February Out to Sea: Texans, it seems, are rarely thought of as seagoing people, and yet we're blessed with ample coastline marked by many thrilling nautical links to the past. |
Middle February Naval Gazing: Edwin Ward Moore was the intrepid, inventive, never-say-die naval commander who single-handedly built the fledgling Republic's naval forces from scratch. |
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Early January Texana Links: More and more about the Texas Myth. |
Middle December Whistle Blower: Take a ride on a steam train. |
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Early November A Weirder, Wilder Texas |
Middle November Booking Down the Road: Thoughts on the recent Texas Book Festival |
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Early October A Capitol standoff: The Coke-Davis Dispute of 1874 |
Middle October Me & Billy the Kid: |
