Parks & Recs
April 1, 1977
Forgotten Places
Of canyons, creeks, and craters: the Big Bend as few have seen it.
Best of TM Archives
True Crime
March 1, 1977
Rich Man, Dead Man
Profile of a society murder and the woman who lived to tell about 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.
Sports
December 1, 1976
Friday Night Heroes
In some towns, high school football is still a way of life.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1976
The Making of Barbara Jordan
From poor black girl to presidential possibility, in ten not-so-easy lessons.
Style & Design
August 31, 1976
Sisterhood is Powerful
Especially for sorority sisters.
Style & Design
August 31, 1976
Texas on My Feet
If the boot fits, wear it.
Texas History
August 31, 1976
Making the Best of It
A great photographer looks at plain people caught in the hard times of another Texas.
True Crime
August 31, 1976
Busting Out of Mexico
Two self-styled Texas soldiers of fortune engineered one of the more bizarre jailbreaks in history. Here’s how it happened.
Music
July 31, 1976
Bringing It All Back Home
Nashville inspired Willie Nelson—to leave.
Best Thing in Texas
June 30, 1976
The Best of Texas
You may disagree, but we know we’re right.
Critters
June 30, 1976
Nobody Loves a Rattlesnake
Especially not in Sweetwater: the score at last count was Humans 10,000, Rattlers 0.
Sports
April 30, 1976
Learning the Ropes
Wrestling isn’t fixed; it was never broken.
Style & Design
April 1, 1976
The Highland Park Woman
Splendor in the suburbs.
Libations
March 1, 1976
The Beer Joint
A long overdue homage to a cornerstone of Texas culture.
Performance
February 1, 1976
The Rock Road to Success
ZZ Top knew a good thing when they saw it: Texas.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1976
Bringing Up Lyndon
First the boy made the man—then the man re-made the boy.
True Crime
January 1, 1976
Is Jay J. Armes For Real?
A real-life detective caper, complete with surprise ending.
Sports
December 1, 1975
The Best Sportswriter in Texas
Hint: his initials are B.S.
Texas History
November 1, 1975
Who Was Jack Ruby?
If you thought you knew, you were probably wrong.
History
August 31, 1975
The Alamo? Sure. Two Blocks, Turn Right, and It’s Right Across From the Five and Ten.
You remember, don’t you? That's the place John Wayne died.
True Crime
August 1, 1975
Leroy’s Revenge
Ringside as two dogs—father and son—fight to the death.
Critters
April 30, 1975
Pray for Sharks
Cuddling up to a thousand pounds of ravenous hunger.
Texas History
January 1, 1975
Divide and Conquer
Five states are better than one, when they’re all named Texas.
Energy
November 1, 1974
The Wildcatter’s Wildcatter
Glenn McCarthy still roars like a lion.
Energy
November 1, 1974
The Lonely Search for Oil
Of doodlebugs, boll weevils, rockhounds, and wildcatters.
True Crime
September 30, 1974
The Strange Power of Fred Carrasco
He left a police department, a mayor, and fifty bodies in his wake.
Music
September 30, 1974
Growing Old at Willie Nelson’s Picnic
What is it like to miss the sexual revolution (and some others) by a mere handful of years?
Sports
August 31, 1974
Coming of Age in the Locker Room
What football does to its people.
Being Texan
July 31, 1974
So You Want to Be a Redneck
Owning a pickup is not, in itself, enough.
Being Texan
July 31, 1974
Redneck!
Being a Redneck is a lot of things, but it ain’t fun and it ain’t easy.
Health
June 30, 1974
Six West
Staying alive day by day . . . by day.
Politics & Policy
March 31, 1974
Bob and George Go to Washington or The Post-Watergate Scramble
The GOP and Democratic chairmen are both from Texas. Right there the similarity ends, or begins, no, ends.
Music
March 31, 1974
He’s About a Mover
Doug Sahm’s music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody.
Sports
February 28, 1974
Rodeo Madness
A rodeo is an anachronism, like javelin throwing: but its bumps, bruises, and brawls are real.
Texas History
January 31, 1974
Going Home to Arlington
How do you find a folksy town of 7,500 people 20 years later in a sprawling city of 110,000?
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1974
We the People…
When we write a constitution for the first time in almost 100 years, everyone wants a piece of the pie. In spite of it all, the new draft turned out to be an improvement. Now it's the legislature's turn.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1973
Mother of the Decade
Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie’s shadow.
Sports
November 1, 1973
Tom Landry: Melting the Plastic Man
Behind the mask is a man of God, a man devoted to the all-American goal of winning the all-American game as few have done before him.
Business
November 1, 1973
Empires of Paper
A law firm of almost 200 attorneys becomes an institution with massive power and life of its own. Three such firms are in Texas, including two of the four largest in the U.S. We open them, for the first time, to the public.
Texas History
September 30, 1973
Closing Down La Grange
An Aggie views the closing of the Chicken Ranch. George Washington didn’t sleep there, but many famous and unfamous Texans did.
Texas History
August 31, 1973
The Death of the Marlboro Man
Old Glory is a long way from Madison Avenue, and Bigun Bradley probably knew it.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1973
How the New Drug Law Was Made
In which Texas comes into the 20th century, barely.
Texas History
July 31, 1973
The Last Romantic Outlaw
Tired of running, he let himself be caught; then he busted right out again.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1973
Sex and Politics
Right here in Austin and right up there in Washington, our men who stand for office have been messin' around.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1973
Farewell to LBJ: A Hill Country Valediction
Some last words, reverent and irreverent, like Lyndon himself.
Arts & Entertainment
March 1, 1973
Salvation Worries? Prostate Trouble?
Across-the-border radio stations milk the boondocks.
News & Politics
March 1, 1973
So Long, Cosmic Cowboys
One giant step backward for the Moonmen.
Sports
February 1, 1973
The Lonely Blues of Duane Thomas
Why the best runner in pro football ran right out of the game.