All posts by Jesse Sublett
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Staying Alive
For every one hundred people diagnosed with cancer of the tonsil, fewer than nine survive. I hope I’m one of them.
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Prison Rodeo Gone, but Not Forgotten
Another piece of Texas history was razed in mid-January when bulldozers unceremoniously demolished the prison rodeo arena in Huntsville, but the memory of the event rides on.
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When a Loved One Is Murdered
In the mid-seventies my girlfriend was strangled by a serial killer. I eventually got on with my life, but I nver could have imagined the toll it would take.
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Wild Town
Through the eyes of novelist Jim Thompson, Fort Worth in the twenties seemed appropriately noir.
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Texana Ranger
Digging Texas Outlaws Wild West outlaws died young and left good looking corpses, but is that any reason to keep digging them up? It’s a craze in the name of “historical” curiosity that has seen the supposedly-final resting places of guys like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, and, most recently, Wild Bill …
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Lone On The Range: Texas Lawmen
A history of the Texas Rangers.