The three-to-eleven evening shift, Bexar County Hospital, San Antonio: nurse Genene Jones was on duty in the pediatric intensive care unit, and for months babies kept having mysterious—sometimes fatal—emergencies. Why?
Jack Young was the eighties’ oil boom in the flesh. Unfortunately, he also personifies the aftermath of the bust.
Charlie Brooks was the first man to die by lethal injection, but everyone wondered whether he or his partner was the real murderer. In his last days, Brooks answered that, and other questions.
Does Texas’ greatest college coach miss football? Nope.
His first spacecraft blew up on the pad and his primary investor died, but the first free enterprise rocket finally flew from Matagorda.
The inside story of Boone Pickens’ adventures in the Wall Street merger game, featuring action, suspense, drama, a few laughs, and a special guest appearance by President Ronald Reagan.
God created Texas, and then He created people who would love it.
He was wildly eccentric, he lived in a shanty on the Gulf, he subsisted as a bait fisherman, he had bizarre notions of eternal life. He may have been the best artist Texas has ever produced.
A photographic tour of the timeless Rio Grande, from its origins in the mountains of Colorado to the Padre Island dunes at the tip of Texas.
Anybody can get a job as a security guard. Anybody.
It was simple, really. With Charlie’s Angels, television discovered sex.
Honest.
Welcome to Highland Park, a small town right in the middle of Dallas where the living is easy and time stands still.
Texas’ most glamorous mall has all the comforts of home and then some. So why not move in?
For hundreds of years man—from the Comanche to the backpacker—has tried to conquer Big Bend. Still, it remains wild, stark, and pristine.
In a big fight you can outwit, outhit, or outlast your opponent. But you’d better not try to outeat him.
Pedro Martínez, with only his Mexican heritage, a determination to work hard, and a desire for a better life, brought his family across the Rio Grande to find a home in a new land.
In Texas the best way to get rich in cable television is to know just a little about TV and everything about politics.
Talk to coaches and team owners about AstroTurf and you’ll hear all its advantages. Talk to the players and you’ll hear a different story.
The best part of Texas high school football is that it’s the biggest thing in town—and still only a game.
Work is tarring rooftops in the scorching Texas heat, home is a falling-down shanty visited by rats and roaches, supper is boiled potatoes and tortillas. It's the good life for two illegal Mexican immigrants trying to make it in America.
Houston welcomes a classy Paris fashion designer with a rootin', tootin', ripsnortin' wild West show.
Ten years ago the Apollo astronauts, technicians and scientists all, landed on the Moon and touched what poets only dreamed. But that touch changed their lives.
Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.
The former boy wonder of Texas politics has found a new career. Still, old habits die hard.
It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t cheap. But was it justice?
Someone was gunning down members of the state’s toughest motorcycle gang one at a time. Doe hoped her man wouldn’t be next.
At the Texas Medical Center the best hospitals, doctors, researchers, and medical technology anywhere in the world have combined to transform doctors from healers into superstars.
How a bountifully talented young Texas writer based a novel on Lyndon Johnson, won high praise, and then…
How the world’s largest corporation decides who will make it to the top—and who won’t.
At the Fort Worth stockyards, cattlemen buy and sell amid the last vestiges of the Old West.
Perhaps, after all, girls should go with boys who chew.
If working hard builds character, these people must be saints.
Fess up now. In your heart of hearts, don’t you hate it, too?
A few years ago guards ran the Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane. Now sociopathic criminals rule the wards.
The newest style of manly hatwear.
When another farmer goes broke his neighbors thank God it wasn’t them; then they wonder when their turn is coming.
The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!
How a towheaded kid from North Carolina became God’s best salesman.
The real Nuevo Laredo isn’t George Washington’s Birthday, Boystown, or throngs of tourists; it’s the street life.
Some disagree. They are wrong.
It is boorish, cluttered, aggravating, rich, beautiful, explosive, titillating, cosmopolitan, endearing, and has a full head of steam.
Big D is not called Big D for nothing.
At the National Women’s Conference, the feminists changed their sandals for pumps and embraced mainstream America.
A good country dog is loyal, obedient, and knows the difference between a chicken and a possum.
One week with a thousand cheerleaders.
Roger Staubach is one Cowboy who always wears a white hat.
You don’t have to be crazy to attend Texas-OU Weekend, but it helps.
If you ever go to Houston, you’d better walk right. You’d better not gamble, and you’d better not fight.
It’s called competitive childbirth, but no gold medals are awarded for it.
