Music
September 30, 1988
The Good, The Bad, and The Country
In the small world of country’s New Traditionalism, George Strait and Steve Earle still manage to be worlds apart.
Texas History
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Style & Design
September 1, 1988
Hot Pots
How did bluebonnets and cacti get that glazed look?
Texas History
July 31, 1988
Salado Days
Where the heck is Salado, and why are world-famous intellectuals flocking there?
Texas History
May 31, 1988
Texas Primer: Juneteenth
It began in 1865 as a joyous celebration of emancipation. Today young black Texans find the holiday overshadowed by more immediate concerns.
Texas History
May 1, 1988
Texas Primer: Texas Guinan
She started out as a wide-eyed Waco cowgirl and ended up a New York speakeasy queen.
Texas History
April 1, 1988
Texas Primer: The Bowie Knife
Whether a frontiersman needed to skin a bear, chop wood, or fight in a due, Jim Bowie’s weapon was the tool of choice.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1988
Behind the Lines
Conover Hunt and the Sixth Floor Museum.
Texas History
March 1, 1988
Texas in the Blood!
Descendants of famous Texans like Sam Houston and Davy Crockett don’t even try to fill their forefathers’ shoes. They just do their best to keep them polished.
Music
February 1, 1988
With Strings Attached
Willie Nelson’s true love may have a body that’s worse for the wear, but woe to the man who tries to pick it up.
Texas History
August 31, 1987
A Texan Looks at Lyndon
On the eve of the 1964 national elections, Texas historian J. Evetts Haley published a scathing attack on President Lyndon B. Johnson. The book sold seven million copies, but Johnson still won the race.
Texas History
June 1, 1987
Sombreros of the Gods?
For centuries, scientists have searched for the answers to the mystery of Nosehenge. Now—for the first time—the startling truth.
Texas History
February 1, 1987
The Empress of Fort Worth
Anne Bass married one of the richest men in America. With his money and her ambition she became an important cultural force in Fort Worth and New York. Life was perfect. Then her husband left her.
Texas History
February 1, 1987
Texas Primer: The Rose Window
The secrets of love seen through a glass, clearly.
Texas History
November 1, 1986
Moments of Glory
Texas Medal of Honor winners remember the day when they were invincible.
Texas History
November 1, 1986
Davy Crockett, Still King of the Wild Frontier
He was a master of tall tales and a genius at self-promotion. But was he anything more?
Texas History
April 1, 1986
Eighteen Minutes
Unlike the Alamo, which can seem as remote and mysterious as Stonehenge, the San Jacinto battlefield has few secrets. Its history lies close at hand.
Texas History
January 1, 1986
River of Blood
The race war on the range.
Sports
January 1, 1986
Friday Night Ringers
Why do the towns that have oil also have the best football players?
Texas History
January 1, 1986
Our Lady of the Taco
Blessed art thou, who hath created Tex-Mex.
Texas History
August 1, 1985
Isle Without End
An early castaway described Padre Island as “a wretched, barren sandbank.” It’s better known today as the Gold Coast of Texas, but its identity is still rooted in wildness and age-old solitude.
Texas History
March 1, 1985
Texas Primer: The Trail Ride
It began in 1952 as a nostalgic recreation of the old cattle drive. Now it’s a grand annual party stretching across Texas.
Texas History
February 1, 1985
The Big Country
The great Texas ranches and how they got that way.
Texas History
November 1, 1984
Howdy, Son. I’m the Law in This County
These fourteen Texas sheriffs are everything you thought a sheriff ought to be. But look quick; the old-time county lawman is riding off into the sunset.
Art
September 30, 1984
Coppini the Great
Pompeo Coppini’s heroic sculptures and European air were just what Texas’ fledgling gentry was hungry for in 1901. Since then his name has faded from memory, but his works endure.
Texas History
April 1, 1984
Texas Primer: The Yellow Rose of Texas
If it wasn’t for the song, no one would remember Emily Morgan, but she launched a nation by diverting Santa Anna at San Jacinto.
Texas History
December 1, 1983
Texas Primer: Christmas on the Range
Yes, Virginia Sue, Texas really does have its own holiday traditions.
Texas History
December 1, 1983
Pearl Harbor Christmas
December 1941 in Clarksville was a time to celebrate peace on earth amid the rumblings of war.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1983
Still on the Case
Assassination buffs come in all shapes and convictions—archivists, technologists, mob-hit theorists, and more—but they are all obsessed with Lee Harvey Oswald, and his crime is the focus of their lives.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1983
Why Do They Hate Us So Much?
A great man was dead and an outraged world desperately wanted someplace to lay blame. It chose Dallas and changed the city forever.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1983
The Legacy of Lee Harvey Oswald
Twenty years ago he thrust himself into our lives; he is there yet.
Texas History
February 1, 1983
Texas Primer: Lyndon’s Lincoln
Can you picture Lbj in a Datsun?
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1983
The Year Everything Changed
If you think Texas is pretty much the same as it was ten years ago, you’re wrong. Nineteen seventy-three remade the state overnight.
Texas History
December 1, 1982
Texas Primer: The Comic Texan
The life and times of the cowboy-millionaire hero of a thousand postcards.
Texas History
November 1, 1982
Texas Primer: The Blue Norther
Sunny in the morning, sunny in the evening, freezing by suppertime.
Texas History
July 31, 1982
Texas Primer: The Tract House
It symbolizes either the American dream or the American nightmare—one or the other of which is enveloping Texas.
Texas History
June 30, 1982
Texas Primer: The Ghost Town
The lost hopes of places like Belle Plain haunt Texas’ prairies.
Texas History
April 30, 1982
The Autumn of Alamo Heights
Welcome—well, sort of—to San Antonio’s dowager bastion.
Libations
March 1, 1982
BYOB
When liquor by the drink went into effect in 1971, Texas changed forever.
Texas History
February 1, 1982
Texas Primer: The Hughes Drill Bit
This clunky piece of machinery made Howard Hughes very rich. It is the first in our series of things that every Texan should know.
Texas History
October 1, 1981
The Failures That Made Texas
When it comes to flops and fiascos, Texans can outdo anyone.
Popular Music
July 31, 1980
The Armadillo’s Last Waltz
The imminent demise of Austin’s famed music hall already has Texans singing the Armadillo homesick blues.
Border & Immigration
March 1, 1980
An American Family
Pedro Martínez, with only his Mexican heritage, a determination to work hard, and a desire for a better life, brought his family across the Rio Grande to find a home in a new land.
Politics & Policy
June 1, 1979
I Hate You!
Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.
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.
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.
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.
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
Texas History
February 1, 1978
San Antonio is Better Than Houston, Dallas, or Anyplace Else
Some disagree. They are wrong.