Politics & Policy
November 1, 1973
Mother of the Decade
Lee Harvey Oswald's mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie's shadow.
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True Crime
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.
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
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1973
Farewell to LBJ: A Hill Country Valediction
Some last words, reverent and irreverent, like Lyndon himself.
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
Texas History
December 31, 1969
Lone On The Range: Texas Lawmen
A history of the Texas Rangers.