ABILENE
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15 Highlights From My 2015 Texas Wanderings
The best sights, bites, and experiences from my travels around the state this year.
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Big Country Day Trips
A few reasons to hightail it to the heart of Texas's Midwest.
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Trip Guide: Abilene
While away a weekend in the heart of Big Country.
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Interview: Tom Perini of Perini Ranch Steakhouse
Co-Owner: Perini Ranch Steakhouse; Opened 1983 Age: 71 Smoker: Indirect Heat Wood-Fired Pit Wood: Mesquite Tom Perini cooks with mesquite. It might be in the form of coals for direct heat cooking, or the active flames of burning logs for grilling steaks. That mesquite also fuels an offset smoker for the smoked prime rib served in the restaurant and …
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Stillwater Barbeque
With a history formed by ranching and railroads, Abilene sounds like a city destined to have good brisket. It was founded in 1883 after cattle ranchers and land speculators convinced the railroad to swing north of former county seat Buffalo Gap, and a new city was born. After the railroad came through, cattle no longer needed …
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The Church At The Local Bar
Alcohol will be served—after the sermon.
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Feathery Friday: Giant Egg Laid in Abilene
One Abilene chicken had a rough week.
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Alzheimer’s Patient Bites Nurse Aide. Aide Bites Back.
According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, an Abilene nursing home aide claimed "her teeth hit the resident as she raised her head and tried to stand up."
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Man Arrested for Stabbing Puppy in Abilene
Abilene police arrested a man who attacked a fourteen-week-old puppy.
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The Cattle Trail Drive
ROUTE: Fort Belknap to Red Bluff ReservoirDISTANCE: 505 milesNUMBER OF COUNTIES: 15WHAT TO READ: J. Evetts Haley’s Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman In the rolling country northwest of the Palo Pinto Mountains, nestled along FM 61, stand the barracks of Fort Belknap. It was from this outpost, in 1860, that a hastily assembled group of …