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.
Being Texan
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
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.
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.
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.’
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
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.
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.
Being Texan
April 30, 1975
The Greatest Experience of Your Life
Climbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps.
Texas History
January 1, 1975
The Americanization of Texas
Reflections on the disappearance of the independent Texan.
Texas History
January 1, 1975
Divide and Conquer
Five states are better than one, when they’re all named Texas.
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
September 30, 1973
Closing Down La Grange
An Aggie views the closing of the Chicken Ranch. George Washington didn’t sleep there, but many famous and unfamous Texans did.