October 1980

Sep 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

The ingredients: a criminal with soiled cash, an ambitious banker, a savvy go-between. The result: an almighty mess for Houston’s Allied Bank.

Sep 30, 1980 — By Stephen Harrigan

South Texas went into a frenzy preparing for Hurrican Allen, then the guest of honor never showed up.

Sep 30, 1980 — By Paul Burka

Hurricane Allen proved that everyone talks about the weather but nobody knows much about it its’least of all the National Weather Service.

Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles

Bob Kleberg had a problem. Brahman cattle from India were tough enough to survive in the South Texas climate, but they were too tough to eat. And fat English cattle like Herefords and Shorthorns suffered the traditional fate of the English in the tropics: they degenerated into a stupor and…

Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles

Ranching ultimately comes down to managing land and water. The King Ranch is blessed with much of the former and almost none of the latter. Before it was divided among Richard and Henrietta King’s five children in 1935, the King Ranch was bigger than Delaware. Now it’s only bigger than…

Jan 20, 2013 — By Texas Monthly

Richard King and his wife, Henrietta, founded the King Ranch. Their daughter Alice and her husband, Robert Kleberg — shown with their children in the turn-of-the-century photograph at the right — founded the family that sustained it. When Henrietta King died in 1925, the ranch’s 1.2 million acres were divided…

Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles

Robert E. Lee advised his friend Richard King to build his permanent home at the highest point on the surrounding prairie, a little rise on the banks of Santa Gertrudis Creek. The first building was a tiny adobe jacal built of mud and sticks. The one-story house that replaced it…

Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles

At the core of the King Ranch is the vaquero tradition, the centuries-old culture of horsemen and cattle that began on the central plateau of Spain. Richard saw how that culture could transform the Great Plains, and in the 1850s he made a recruiting trip to Mexico. The families he…

Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles

The King Ranch saga: how one family conquered, tamed, loved, toiled on, and fought over a great piece of Texas.

Sep 30, 1980 — By Patricia Sharpe

Sep 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

The days of 40-cent gas are back again; the Astros’ midlife crisis; the state budget is gone with the wind; Baytown’s all washed up.

Sep 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

Firehouse fuming, bullring bawling, onion fields calling.

Sep 30, 1980 — By donrubin

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis

Cover up.

Sep 30, 1980 — By Michael Ennis

Sep 30, 1980 — By W. L. Taitte

Arnold Shoenberg is the century’s most maligned composer, but to know him is to love him.

Sep 30, 1980 — By William Martin

Sep 30, 1980 — By lesterbangs

Joe “King” Carrasco and the Crowns rock New Wave with a Tex-Mex rhythm.

Sep 30, 1980 — By William Broyles

The present against the past: what the New World can learn from the Old, and vice versa.

Sep 30, 1980 — By cwsmith

Sep 30, 1980 — By Stephen Harrigan

Three Texas poets word their way into print; two new novels trace the adventures of Neanderthals and knights-errant.

Sep 30, 1980 — By Doug Ramsey

Although Don Albert’s music was a mainstay of the forties, his obstinate stand against racism put him years ahead of his time.

Sep 30, 1980 — By Michael Ennis

Leon Box is a retarded artist whose work underscores the beauty and absurdity of a world he has seen very little of.

Sep 30, 1980 — By George Morris

Sep 30, 1980 — By Texas Monthly

Where have all the boat people gone?; money makes UT go round; Dallas blacks lambaste the co ps; Texas lowriders get down.