
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.
Feb 24, 2016 — By Lonn Taylor
On nineteenth-century Texas’s primitive roads, riding on a stage line was hardly a glamorous affair.
Dec 23, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
Though Quanah Parker and the way of life he represented is long gone, his headdress remains.
Nov 18, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
A Christmas carousel built nearly a century and a half ago is a welcome reminder of Texas’s deep German heritage.
Oct 21, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
The dishes, glassware, and silver that John F. Kennedy never got to use.
Aug 13, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
The story behind rodeo star Tad Lucas’s little red riding boots.
Jul 23, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
Stephen F. Austin was a Texas pioneer—of image management.
Jun 12, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
Among other things, Charles Goodnight basically invented the food truck. (He called it the chuck wagon.)
May 13, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
How the Spindletop gusher turned one prospector into an arts patron with an unusual flair for self-recrimination.
Apr 9, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
A century ago, no battleship could do without a twelve-gallon silver punchbowl with matching cups and ladle.
Mar 18, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
A keepsake taken from a fallen warrior’s body 135 years ago hasn’t lost its power.
Feb 3, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
The most effective weapon of the Texas Revolution, even if it couldn’t save the mission’s defenders.
Jan 9, 2015 — By Lonn Taylor
When an oil well on Joe Bowers’s Panhandle property came in, he knew just what he wanted to buy.
Dec 11, 2014 — By Lonn Taylor
Four generations of an illustrious border family have passed down a magnificent nineteenth-century example of Tejano saddlery.
Nov 6, 2014 — 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.
Aug 5, 2014 — By Lonn Taylor
Why did hunter-gatherers bury their arrow points on the tallest peak in the Davis Mountains?
Jul 10, 2014 — 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.
May 9, 2014 — 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.
Mar 4, 2014 — By Lonn Taylor
A rare relic of slavery in Texas—and one woman’s freedom.
Jan 9, 2014 — By Lonn Taylor
The story behind an unusual trophy of the Texas Revolution.
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