Travel & Outdoors
July 31, 1986
Waco’s Secrets Revealed
Cradled on the Brazos, this central Texas town yields its pleasures ever so grudgingly.
Travel & Outdoors
Hunting & Fishing
July 1, 1986
Man to Man
The son’s ultimate selfishness is to see his father only as his father—not as a man. But on our first fishing trip in 25 years, I began to see my father—and myself—as the grown men we’d become.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1986
Grasslands
In the early journals of pioneers who described the prairie surrounding their new homesteads, the ocean was the most common metaphor—swells of grass set rippling by the wind.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1986
Hot Springs Eternal
Going to Hot Springs was once a Texas rite of passage steeped in the ways of old sin. Today this Arkansas resort is still worth the trip.
Hunting & Fishing
March 1, 1986
Bass’n Gal
There are bass in Sam Rayburn Reservoir, and the gals were out to hook ’em. And Rhonda Wilcox hoped to hook the biggest one of all.
Travel & Outdoors
March 1, 1986
The Tree-Ear, The Comb Tooth, & The Destroying Angel
Alice in Wonderland never discovered a mushroom half as exotic as Texas’ own native fungi.
Travel & Outdoors
February 1, 1986
A Caribbean Escape
From luxury class to no-plumbing primitive, the Technicolor tropics of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula offer end-of-the-world delights. And it’s practically in our back yard.
Travel & Outdoors
December 1, 1985
Every Traveler’s Nightmare
Ever worry that your trip overseas could turn into a disaster? We certainly didn’t—until a speeding bakery truck collided with our Italian vacation.
Travel & Outdoors
October 1, 1985
Deep in the Heart of Mexico
What’s wrong with Mexico is exactly what’s right with it.
Travel & Outdoors
September 1, 1985
Roaming the Range
Follow that ribbon of highway to discover the breathtaking River Road, a beer-drinking goat, fabulous fajitas, and the ghostly cavalry of Fort Davis—all in the vast vacation resource known as West Texas.
Sports
August 1, 1985
The Wee World of Golf
Looking for a sport that offers plenty of cheap thrills and wacky challenges but requires no training, no equipment, and no big bucks? Try miniature golf.
Texas History
August 1, 1985
Isle Without End
An early castaway described Padre Island as “a wretched, barren sandbank.” It’s better known today as the Gold Coast of Texas, but its identity is still rooted in wildness and age-old solitude.
Art
July 1, 1985
105°
A photographic study on beating the heat.
Hunting & Fishing
June 1, 1985
The Last Tarpon
My quest for this magnificent silver fish drew me to a lonely stretch of the Texas coast night and day, summer and fall, over and over again.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1985
Last One In . . .
When the summer heat starts to get to you, cool your heels by plunging into an icy green swimming hole.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1985
I Was a Dude on Tumbling Mare Mountain
My pack trip in Mexico’s Sierra del Carmen wasn't exactly the Gray Line Tour.
Border & Immigration
April 1, 1985
Ambient Color
As these photographs show, in Mexico the strange is commonplace, and the commonplace, strange.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1985
The Bluebonnet Snapshot
Okay, so photos of cute kids in fields of bluebonnets aren’t great art. That’s not the point at all.
Hunting & Fishing
March 1, 1985
Bring ’Em Back Alive
In darkest South Texas roam two of the world’s most endangered species—the black rhino and the Great White Hunter.
By
Jan Reid
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Parks & Recs
January 1, 1985
A Grand Canyon
In 1541 Coronado and his troops stumbled upon a huge canyon in the midst of grassy plains and gazed upon it with awe. Journeying down into Palo Duro Canyon on mules 443 years later, I began to understand why.
By
Jan Reid
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Critters
December 1, 1984
The Great Texas Alligator Hunt
They told me alligators don’t eat people. But when I found myself face to face with one in a dark East Texas swamp, I hoped they’d told him too.
Travel & Outdoors
September 1, 1984
Blissed Out on the Beach of Love
At a slightly wacky hotel in southern Mexico, you can lose your inhibitions and find a little romance.
Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1984
Little D
Dallas, Scotland: the city that’s everything Big D isn’t.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1984
The Man Who Dreamed Up Luckenbach
Hondo Crouch went from being a champion athlete to being the sad clown of Texas’s fun-and-games capital.
Critters
June 1, 1984
The Wild Side of Town
You don’t have to go to the country or the zoo to see wild animals; there are lizards in downtown buildings, gators in the creeks, and deer in the parking lots.
Hunting & Fishing
March 1, 1984
The Deluxe Down-and-Dirty Goose Hunt
In which a group of society ladies samples the thrills and chills of an essentially masculine pastime.
Parks & Recs
August 31, 1983
Texas Primer: Caprock
Across the Panhandle stretches a thin red line that divides doughty plains dwellers from Texas’ lesser changed.
Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1983
Secret Places
In the hidden corners of Texas’ outback—in foresty swamp and shimmering desert—there are a few places that are still primeval.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1983
Phantom Cat of the Valley
Meet the ocelot, not as pet, not as fur coat, but in its best role—an elusive remnant of Texas’ wild past.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1983
Funky Riviera
Discover another side of the Texas coast—its peerless beachcombing, legendary beer joints, odd birds (feathered and otherwise), and lovable year-round scruffiness.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1983
The Cow’s in the Corn
Or, my life as a Texas gardener.
By
Jan Reid
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Hunting & Fishing
April 1, 1983
The New Rustlers
Today’s desperadoes are in the bays of the Texas coast, roping redfish and cursing the Parks and Wildlife Department.
Travel & Outdoors
October 1, 1982
On the Wing
Roy Kendall, self-taught lepidopterist, would want you to add this to the list of reasons for living in Texas: nowhere else in the U.S. are there so many beautiful and unusual butterflies.
Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1982
Underneath Texas
The real lowdown on the Lone Star State.
Critters
May 31, 1982
Texas Primer: The Horny Toad
It’s everybody’s favorite reptile, and it’s disappearing from Texas.
Travel & Outdoors
May 31, 1982
Big River
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.
Critters
November 1, 1981
The Hog Chronicles
The city boy moved to the country and life was good. And then he bought four pigs.
Critters
October 1, 1981
Bats!
They’re ugly little things, but you’ve got to respect them.
Hunting & Fishing
August 31, 1981
Lord of the Flies
Fly-fishing is a particularly fastidious way of trying to fool a fish, but it’s also a particularly pleasant one.
Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1981
The Perfect River
From giant freshwater prawns to bikini-clad coeds, from ancient Indian artifacts to swimming pigs, there’s something for everyone on the San Marcos River.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1981
Get Out and See the World, Kid . . . or Bring the World Back Home
These gifts should activate the wanderlust in any recent graduate.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1981
The Year of the Flower
What’s behind this year’s rampant display of wild flowers? The birds and the bees, of course.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1981
The Coyote Wars
The stake is survival—for either the sheep and goat ranchers of West Texas or the smartest predator of all.
By
Jan Reid
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Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1981
Tenting Tonight
How you can—and why you should—go camping in the middle of the week.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1981
Pack Up Your Troubles
Today’s high-tech camping gear has stolen a march on your old kit bag.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1981
Grin and Bear It
Camping gets you back to the basics: blisters, chiggers, and, yes, deep satisfaction.
Hunting & Fishing
April 1, 1981
Shrimpers
Someone endured weeks of hard work, loneliness, and seasickness to land that lovely pink delicacy on your plate.
Travel & Outdoors
March 1, 1981
Going Under
For a man and his daughter out for a pleasant day’s fishing, the first sign of danger was a man’s hat floating silently down the stream.
Travel & Outdoors
March 1, 1981
Out in the West Texas Town of El Paso
What to eat, how to shop, and where to boogie in the most enchanting corner of Texas.
Travel & Outdoors
March 1, 1981
Schmaltz Across Texas
On a soap opera sound stage in Brooklyn the state of Texas lives and loves.