Texas History
January 1, 1975
Divide and Conquer
Five states are better than one, when they’re all named Texas.
Being Texan
Being Texan
July 31, 1974
So You Want to Be a Redneck
Owning a pickup is not, in itself, enough.
Being Texan
July 31, 1974
Redneck!
Being a Redneck is a lot of things, but it ain’t fun and it ain’t easy.
Meanwhile in Texas
April 30, 1974
Low Talk
Ben Barnes’ decision to reenter politics is not a question of whether to, but of which party. Fort Worth attorney and Barnes’ closest friend Dee J. Kelly, says of the top vote-getter in Texas: “it is not a question of running again, but of which party to run in. He’s
Texas History
January 31, 1974
Going Home to Arlington
How do you find a folksy town of 7,500 people 20 years later in a sprawling city of 110,000?
Texas History
December 1, 1973
Why Dallas?
When John Neely Bryan built his cabin he didn't know what would happen to Big D as it grew, or why it would happen. A. C. Greene searches through old photographs and records to give us the answer.
Being Texan
September 30, 1973
Let the Love Light Shine
Those Jesus Freaks are your children. But what's the colony like in Dallas?
Texas History
August 31, 1973
The Death of the Marlboro Man
Old Glory is a long way from Madison Avenue, and Bigun Bradley probably knew it.
Texas History
June 30, 1973
Sam Houston, Warts and All
A good woman finally marries the wild frontier man and saves him from himself. Manifestly destiny.
Texas History
May 31, 1973
Touts
Cute Toot-TootAmtrak notwithstanding, countless unfulfilled railroad buffs still reside in Texas.For these unsatiated appetites, a genuine “little railroad that could” still makes daily runs in East Texas. The Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad was begun in 1927 as passenger service between the sawmill town of Camden and the railroad
Texas History
April 1, 1973
Briar Patch
IF FORTUNE MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, the fortunes of death make the strangest of all. In the state cemetery in Austin, J. Frank Dobie, Ma and Pa Ferguson, and Big Foot Wallace lie within a 30-yard radius of one another. Their graves are near the top of a small hill which