First Person
Staying Alive
For every one hundred people diagnosed with cancer of the tonsil, fewer than nine survive. I hope I’m one of them.
The Culture
March 31, 2012
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.
Crime
June 30, 2002
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.
Books
November 1, 1999
Wild Town
Through the eyes of novelist Jim Thompson, Fort Worth in the twenties seemed appropriately noir.
Texas History
December 31, 1969
Lone On The Range: Texas Lawmen
A history of the Texas Rangers.
Web Exclusive
December 31, 1969
Texana Ranger
Digging Texas OutlawsWild 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