A German Flag Went Missing in WWII. It Was Recently Found in Houston—Then Went Missing Again.
The treasured banner was discovered in a Texas gun store, sparking questions about the repatriation of artifacts.
The treasured banner was discovered in a Texas gun store, sparking questions about the repatriation of artifacts.
On nineteenth-century Texas’s primitive roads, riding on a stage line was hardly a glamorous affair.
Though Quanah Parker and the way of life he represented is long gone, his headdress remains.
A Christmas carousel built nearly a century and a half ago is a welcome reminder of Texas’s deep German heritage.
The dishes, glassware, and silver that John F. Kennedy never got to use.
The story behind rodeo star Tad Lucas’s little red riding boots.
Stephen F. Austin was a Texas pioneer—of image management.
A century ago, no battleship could do without a twelve-gallon silver punchbowl with matching cups and ladle.
A keepsake taken from a fallen warrior’s body 135 years ago hasn’t lost its power.
The most effective weapon of the Texas Revolution, even if it couldn’t save the mission’s defenders.
When an oil well on Joe Bowers’s Panhandle property came in, he knew just what he wanted to buy.
Four generations of an illustrious border family have passed down a magnificent nineteenth-century example of Tejano saddlery.
Why did hunter-gatherers bury their arrow points on the tallest peak in the Davis Mountains?
As Texans’ pride of place rose with the price of oil, collectors scrambled for the few documents of the Texas Revolution. Suddenly there seemed to be plenty to go around. But no one thought to ask why.
In death as in life, the Mexican revolutionary is still causing trouble. This time the border skirmish is over his death mask.