Rough Rider
On nineteenth-century Texas’s primitive roads, riding on a stage line was hardly a glamorous affair.
Lonn Taylor is a historian and former museum curator living in Fort Davis.
On nineteenth-century Texas’s primitive roads, riding on a stage line was hardly a glamorous affair.
By Lonn Taylor
Though Quanah Parker and the way of life he represented is long gone, his headdress remains.
By Lonn Taylor
A Christmas carousel built nearly a century and a half ago is a welcome reminder of Texas’s deep German heritage.
By Lonn Taylor
The dishes, glassware, and silver that John F. Kennedy never got to use.
By Lonn Taylor
The story behind rodeo star Tad Lucas’s little red riding boots.
By Lonn Taylor
Stephen F. Austin was a Texas pioneer—of image management.
By Lonn Taylor
Among other things, Charles Goodnight basically invented the food truck. (He called it the chuck wagon.)
By Lonn Taylor
How the Spindletop gusher turned one prospector into an arts patron with an unusual flair for self-recrimination.
By Lonn Taylor
A century ago, no battleship could do without a twelve-gallon silver punchbowl with matching cups and ladle.
By Lonn Taylor
A keepsake taken from a fallen warrior’s body 135 years ago hasn’t lost its power.
By Lonn Taylor
The most effective weapon of the Texas Revolution, even if it couldn’t save the mission’s defenders.
By Lonn Taylor
When an oil well on Joe Bowers’s Panhandle property came in, he knew just what he wanted to buy.
By Lonn Taylor
Four generations of an illustrious border family have passed down a magnificent nineteenth-century example of Tejano saddlery.
By Lonn Taylor
Buddy Holly’s trademark black-rimmed glasses were a key part of his public persona. But he was too blind to see it that way at first.
By Lonn Taylor
Why did hunter-gatherers bury their arrow points on the tallest peak in the Davis Mountains?
By Lonn Taylor
The legendary speaker of the House had his own version of a little black book—and it included numbers for a florist, a fishing buddy, and two future presidents.
By Lonn Taylor
Faced with the realities of a rugged land, a band of sixteenth-century explorers left behind their dreams of conquest, as well as this chain mail glove.
By Lonn Taylor
A rare relic of slavery in Texas—and one woman’s freedom.
By Lonn Taylor
The story behind an unusual trophy of the Texas Revolution.
By Lonn Taylor