Two self-styled Texas soldiers of fortune engineered one of the more bizarre jailbreaks in history. Here’s how it happened.
September 1976

Features
Feature
Busting Out of Mexico
Feature
That Certain Look
From alpha to omega, you can’t tell the sorority girls apart without a scorecard.
Feature
Making the Best of It
A great photographer looks at plain people caught in the hard times of another Texas.
Columns
Records
Shoot the Piano Players
Glenn Gould and Peter Serkin have always beenn far-out, but new recordings suggest a certain mellowing.
Performance
Will’s Testament
Western swing will never die, and Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys will never retire.
Miscellany
Reporter
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter