Being Texan
January 1, 1980
Elegant Fossils
Once Texas was a land of fabulous, ornate county courthouses. It still is, but today they’re flamboyant relics in our streamlined urban landscapes.
Being Texan
Sports
December 25, 1979
The Real Mean Green
Talk to coaches and team owners about AstroTurf and you’ll hear all its advantages. Talk to the players and you’ll hear a different story.
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Being Texan
December 1, 1979
My Life and Hard Times in the Junior League
“In the League, you’ll run into a little tradition, some noblesse oblige, and a lot of talk about diets, dyslexia, designer dresses, and divorce.”
Health
December 1, 1979
Smokers Are People Too
You can always spot a smoker. He fiddles with matches, his shirt pocket bulges in a tiny rectangle, and fumes emerge from his mouth and nose. But what should we do about him?
Being Texan
October 1, 1979
A Delicate Balance
Who turned off the melting pot? Vietnamese and Texans fight on the coast.
Politics & Policy
June 1, 1979
I Hate You!
Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.
Country Notes
April 30, 1979
All That Litters
Trash collectors are not necessarily garbage men.
Texas History
April 1, 1979
Fiesta!
Whether you drink champagne or beer, wear diamonds or rhinestones, one thing about Fiesta San Antonio is the same for everyone: it’s fun.
Being Texan
March 1, 1979
Sisters
An album of female kinship.
Texas History
January 1, 1979
In Search of La Salle
The riddle of the French explorer lies buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico, but what is it, where is it, and why, oh why, are we looking for it?
Texas History
November 1, 1978
The End of the Trail
At the Fort Worth stockyards, cattlemen buy and sell amid the last vestiges of the Old West.
Texas History
November 1, 1978
The Chew Road to Knowledge
Perhaps, after all, girls should go with boys who chew.
Being Texan
September 1, 1978
The Deadliest Sin
Confessions of a bridge nut.
Texas History
August 31, 1978
The Sons of the Pioneers
Miles from their nearest neighbors, beset by drought, debt, insects, and government, Panhandle farmers gamble everything to keep alive a tradition they can’t abandon.
Country Notes
July 31, 1978
The Loser
When another farmer goes broke his neighbors thank God it wasn’t them; then they wonder when their turn is coming.
Being Texan
July 1, 1978
You Can See By My Outfit That I Am a Cowboy
When this young man decided to go West, he made it as far as a dude ranch in Bandera.
Being Texan
July 1, 1978
The Last Sister
Modern nuns have left the convent and entered the world. If they don’t like what they find, can they go home again?
Being Texan
July 1, 1978
Brave New Vacancies
Give us your tired and freezing Yankees, your studious Arabs, your ambitious young hustlers just blown into town, and we will rent them one bedroom and a bath for $215.
Texas History
June 30, 1978
On the Waterfront
It was Memorial Day weekend and the pickings were slim. Most of the ships that normally would have been in port lay anchored in Galveston Bay so they wouldn’t have to pay time and a half to longshoremen. The old longshoreman they called Goat made his rounds, cadging drinks and looking
Being Texan
April 1, 1978
The Petrified Forest
Behind the pine curtain of deep East Texas is a world trapped in the past and hidden from the future: lush woods, poor whites, the descendants of slaves, and an aristocracy still breathing the rarefied air of the Old South.
Being Texan
March 1, 1978
The Power and the Glory of Billy Graham
How a towheaded kid from North Carolina became God’s best salesman.
Being Texan
March 1, 1978
Saturday Night
If it’s Saturday night and you just got paid, you’re a fool about your money and don’t try to save—go dancing.
Texas History
February 1, 1978
San Antonio is Better Than Houston, Dallas, or Anyplace Else
Some disagree. They are wrong.
Texas History
February 1, 1978
Houston is Better Than Dallas
It is boorish, cluttered, aggravating, rich, beautiful, explosive, titillating, cosmopolitan, endearing, and has a full head of steam.
Texas History
February 1, 1978
Dallas Is Better Than Houston
Big D is not called Big D for nothing.
Being Texan
December 1, 1977
They Found It!
Charismatics start by losing their heads and end up with a new kind of religion.
Country Notes
December 1, 1977
Ol’ Blue
A good country dog is loyal, obedient, and knows the difference between a chicken and a possum.
Texana
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’
Being Texan
September 30, 1977
Lone Stars
You’ve met the stars of stage and screen. Now meet the stars of Texas.
Country Notes
September 30, 1977
The World to Wine
Try the house wine; I made it with my own feet.
Texas History
September 30, 1977
What’s Red, White, and Blue . . . And Orange All Over?
The Orange Show’s 75-year-old creator, Jeff McKissack, still goes dancing and is sure he will live to be a hundred.Never heard of the Orange Show? Then you’ve missed a razzle-dazzle piece of American folk art—an amusement park/sideshow that looks like a topless castle designed by a committee
Being Texan
April 30, 1977
Eat, Eat, It’s Good For You
Meet five famous Texans who still listen to Mother.
Being Texan
April 30, 1977
Unfinished Women
In which our author hints that Texas men are in for a rude awakening.
Texas History
April 30, 1977
The Other Texas
Rio Grande City Michael Patrick Houston Suzanne Paul Austin Harry Boyd Rosenberg Joe Baraban Ingram Harry Boyd Hillsboro Nicolas Russell Martindale
Being Texan
April 30, 1977
The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk
Forget all those myths about poverty and welfare. This family is real and they live it.
Texas History
April 30, 1977
Grand Hotels
You won’t find Greta Garbo at these classic establishments, but some things that happen there are straight out of a movie.
Being Texan
February 1, 1977
The Baptists Want You!
Don’t take this wrong, but they’ve hired Eldridge Cleaver to get you.
Texas History
January 1, 1977
How to Be Southern
Southwestern is out, Southern is in. Here’s how to renew our charter membership.
Being Texan
December 1, 1976
One for the Book
Meet the people who can eat, leap, kick, and talk more, better, higher, and faster than anyone else in the world.
Texas History
November 1, 1976
Whatever Happened to the New Generation?
What are the sixties’ radicals doing for an encore?
Being Texan
September 30, 1976
Me and My Truck
When is a truck more than a truck?
Texas History
September 30, 1976
State Fair
The roar of the grease, the smell of the corny dog.
Texas History
August 31, 1976
Making the Best of It
A great photographer looks at plain people caught in the hard times of another Texas.
Best Thing In Texas
June 30, 1976
The Best of Texas
You may disagree, but we know we’re right.
Texas History
May 31, 1976
Our Town
Every small town is different; every small town is the same.
Texas History
January 1, 1976
Historical Markers You Will Never See
Sometimes the history books leave out the best part.
Being Texan
November 1, 1975
God’s Country
Abilene, Abilene, strangest town I’ve ever seen.
Texas History
September 30, 1975
Bury My Heart at the Souvenir Shop
The Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation is a braves’ new world.
Being Texan
September 30, 1975
In Search of the Modern Cowboy
In today‘s tame, tame West, the cowboy seldom rides a horse and never carries a gun, but the cattle business is bigger than ever.
Being Texan
May 31, 1975
Retreat from Liberation
A different sort of women’s movement has this basic belief: give in and ye shall receive.