Texas Primer: The Open Container
Texans are sometimes driven to drink.
Texans are sometimes driven to drink.
Across the Panhandle stretches a thin red line that divides doughty plains dwellers from Texas’ lesser changed.
Wearing one won’t make you a real live cowboy, but it sure will brand you as a modern Texan.
Sure it means water. It also means pride.
The last best way to see the real Texas.
West Texas was a desert when this little irrigation device came along. Now it’s a desert that produces more cotton than anywhere else in the country.
Can you picture Lbj in a Datsun?
The life and times of the cowboy-millionaire hero of a thousand postcards.
Sunny in the morning, sunny in the evening, freezing by suppertime.
Plant it, sit in its shade, but most of all, feast on its fruit.
It looks fragile with its lacy leaves and fragrant flowers. Looks can be deceptive.
It symbolizes either the American dream or the American nightmare—one or the other of which is enveloping Texas.
The lost hopes of places like Belle Plain haunt Texas’ prairies.
It’s everybody’s favorite reptile, and it’s disappearing from Texas.
The air is muggy, the sky turns an eerie green, then you hear a sound like a fleet of freight trains. Beware, Texas, it’s that time of year again.
It’s only a humble weed, but just try to imagine West Texas without it.