Texas History
September 30, 1991
Benny and the Boys
Sure, they were gangsters, but they were our gangsters.
Texas History
Popular Music
February 1, 1991
Yo, Y’all
Carrollton’s Vanilla Ice is the country’s coolest rapper, and several other Texas acts are hot on his heels.
News & Politics
December 1, 1990
I Was Mandarin…
Clues left behind by a former Dallas cop convinced his son that he killed President Kennedy—but that’s just the beginning of the mystery.
Feature
April 30, 1990
Wouldn’t You Like To Be a Pepper Too?
A Dublin bottler is the only one in Texas who’s still sweet on traditional Dr. Pepper.
Texas History
February 1, 1989
The Lost Tribe
They were the classic Texas Indians—fierce, majestic, and free. Today’s Comanches find their lives defined by legends and bitter truths.
Feature
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.
Friends
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
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?…
Business
November 1, 1984
Trashy Business
When Houston’s rich and powerful join forces with environmentalists to battle big corporations, they can be fighting over only one thing. Garbarge.
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
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.
News & Politics
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.
News & Politics
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.
News & Politics
November 1, 1983
The Legacy of Lee Harvey Oswald
Twenty years ago he thrust himself into our lives; he is there yet.
Reporter
November 1, 1982
Texas Monthly Reporter
Texas’ greatest rural sheriff, oddest permutation of democracy, unlikeliest punk heroes, and hottest airline dogfight.
Feature
November 1, 1982
Mr. Hannah’s Rocket
His first spacecraft blew up on the pad and his primary investor died, but the first free enterprise rocket finally flew from Matagorda.
Texas History
November 1, 1982
The Guardians Who Slumbereth Not
Textbook watchdogs Mel and Norma Gabler are good, sincere, dedicated people, who just may be destroying your child’s education.
Texas History
March 1, 1982
BYOB
When liquor by the drink went into effect in 1971, Texas changed forever.
Texas History
March 1, 1982
Drinking
Saint Paul said that a little wine is a fine thing. He must have known something.
Outdoors
November 1, 1980
Can the Boy Scouts Save America?
Perhaps. At least they’re on the right track and trying hard.
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.
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
November 1, 1978
I Still Hate Chili
Fess up now. In your heart of hearts, don’t you hate it, too?…
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.
National Magazine Award Winner
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of Giant.
Design
November 1, 1977
View From the Top
Inside the cushy private boxes at Texas’ top sports stadiums, far from the madding crowd.
Feature
September 30, 1977
The Long Road North
Across the river and into the brush; an eyewitness account of the journey of two wetbacks.
Feature
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…
Texas History
September 30, 1977
Lone Stars
You’ve met the stars of stage and screen. Now meet the stars of Texas.
Feature
June 30, 1977
1977: The Ten Best and Ten Worst Legislators
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Feature
June 30, 1977
They’re Playing Their Song
It takes all kinds of ethnic music to make the world go round.
Feature
May 31, 1977
From Mexico With Love
Out of the Texas melting pot comes a food hot enough to melt anything.
Feature
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…
Feature
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.
Texas History
April 1, 1977
Forgotten Places
Of canyons, creeks, and craters: the Big Bend as few have seen it.
Records
February 1, 1977
The Last Record Store
There’s a heaven for record collectors and it’s in the middle of West Texas.