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Stories From Texas
December 18, 2024
Commentary: Fronters and backers
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December 4, 2024
Commentary: A tale of a stolen town
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November 20, 2024
Commentary: The Gruver Farm Scholarship Foundation
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November 7, 2024
Commentary: Could Napoleon have ruled over Texas?
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October 23, 2024
Commentary: A second siege of the Alamo
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October 9, 2024
Commentary: My brush with fate or serendipity
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October 17, 2018
Climbing the tallest towers in Texas
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July 13, 2022
What Elvis Presley owed West Texas
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August 28, 2024
Some of the best Texans have been Californians – on the silver screen, at least
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August 14, 2024
Frito pie, a mainstay under Friday night lights, is a Texas original
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September 4, 2019
Texans are experts at spinning tall tales, even today
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July 3, 2024
Commentary: He who has the gold, makes the rules
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June 19, 2024
The craziest race you’ve never heard of happened on Padre Island
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May 4, 2022
What happened to Toadsuck, Texas?
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April 10, 2024
Commentary: ‘Counting cattle with the fathers’
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October 7, 2020
Norfleet: The Texas rancher who kept on coming
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May 1, 2019
The Legend Of The Lady In Blue
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March 13, 2024
Commentary: Take a drive through the ‘other’ Hill Country
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February 28, 2024
Commentary: The mystery of the Texas box
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February 14, 2024
Bonnie and Clyde: Star-synced lovers
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June 27, 2018
Pink Cadillacs and lucky 13: How Mary Kay Ash built a billion-dollar business
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March 11, 2020
Jim Bowie, the original influencer
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January 3, 2024
Commentary: New Year’s Eve on Houston Street
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December 20, 2023
Commentary: The gift of the tidelands
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December 6, 2023
Commentary: La Pitada
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November 22, 2023
Talkin’ turkey: Cuero celebrates its history, races for bragging rights at annual Turkeyfest
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November 29, 2017
The surprising lesson of Judge Roy Bean’s life: It’s never too late
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November 8, 2023
Commentary: Found in translation
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October 25, 2023
Commentary: On censorship
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October 31, 2018
How moms use the legend of La Llorona to keep their kids in line
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March 20, 2019
The mystery of the Osage murders
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September 13, 2023
Texas as God’s Country
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June 3, 2020
How Texas became a desert
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August 16, 2023
How Fort Worth was saved by the railroad
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August 3, 2023
The historical accuracy of ‘Lonesome Dove’
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July 19, 2023
Texas Spelling Bee
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July 5, 2023
The Second Sacking of San Antonio
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June 21, 2023
The 50th anniversary of ‘The Time It Never Rained’
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June 29, 2016
Oscar Wilde’s tour of Texas gives us life
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May 24, 2023
Farmer logic
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April 8, 2020
Things Redneck Dave said to me on the drive across Texas
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April 26, 2023
What is a handshake worth?
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April 12, 2023
The story of Sancho, a steer who loved Texas and tamales
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March 29, 2023
Commentary: It’s my turn
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March 1, 2023
Commentary: Quinta Mazatlan, a garden refuge in McAllen, is an extension of the man who built it
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February 7, 2018
My Valentine: A Life-Changing, Theme Song-Singing, Nail-Painting Love
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February 1, 2023
Commentary: Tom Hoskins and his ‘Thousand Points of Light’
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March 22, 2017
We Might Oughtta Praise Texas Grammar
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January 4, 2023
The Port Mansfield Cut and the treasure discovered there
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December 21, 2022
Commentary: Jesse H. Jones was a model philanthropist
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March 21, 2018
Samuel Walker: The Real ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’
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November 24, 2022
Commentary: ‘Three red marbles’ is a story fitting for Thanksgiving
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October 5, 2016
Sure, Texas Is Big – But It Used to Be Even Bigger
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October 12, 2022
‘Yonderings’ may be the best travel guide for Big Bend
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September 14, 2022
Wright Bacon: A Texas original
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February 9, 2022
Remembering Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Texas
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August 24, 2022
Commentary: Flying to school on my Western Flyer, in 1962
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July 27, 2016
The Life of Tom Landry, the Man in the Hat
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July 27, 2022
Falcon Lake, now at devastatingly low capacity, has a storied history
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November 4, 2020
The Texas Connection To Colorado’s Royal Gorge Bridge
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April 19, 2017
The One Musician To Get A Ticker-Tape Parade Was A Texan
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June 1, 2022
In memoriam: A tribute to the 21 lives lost in the Uvalde school shooting
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May 18, 2022
The Sorcerer’s Cave is the deepest – and possibly longest – cave in Texas
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April 20, 2022
That time Uncle Dale made us a baseball field
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March 23, 2022
Heard the one about the pessimistic farmer?
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March 9, 2022
Texas was built by railroads
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January 26, 2022
LBJ’s secret weapon was his sense of humor
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January 12, 2022
There’s a lot more than bluebonnets. Do you know these other official Texas symbols?
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December 29, 2021
Atrocious but efficient: How ranchers used barbed wire to make phone calls
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December 15, 2021
That time Jim Bob and Billy Fred went ice fishing
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December 1, 2021
Why George Washington Brackenridge is Texas’ greatest philanthropist
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November 17, 2021
Hey, Jim Bob: How long until we get a navigation app with a Texan accent?
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November 3, 2021
The Texan origins of the word ‘maverick’
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October 20, 2021
The Texas bed and breakfast for the peregrine falcon
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October 6, 2021
The young lieutenant who crossed the Wild Horse Desert
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September 22, 2021
Texas And The Art Of Understatement
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September 8, 2021
People Aren’t The Only Migrants. Words Travel Too.
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August 25, 2021
France Went Whole Hog On Texas Independence – Until Some Pigs Got In The Way
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July 28, 2021
Plumbing The Depths Of Jacob’s Well
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June 30, 2021
Long Before Elon Musk, A Different Man Had A Plan To Develop Boca Chica
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June 16, 2021
There’s Something About A Person Named Tex
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June 2, 2021
The Backbreaking Work Of Watermelon Season
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May 19, 2021
It’s One Of Texas’ Oldest Businesses. You May Not Know The Name, But You’ve Almost Certainly Tasted The Food.
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May 6, 2020
The Hero Of Cinco De Mayo Was A Texan
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April 21, 2021
Don Pedrito: Healer of Los Olmos
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April 7, 2021
The Story Of ‘Lonesome Dove’ Sprawls Across These Four Books
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March 24, 2021
When Locking Up At Night Meant Latching The Screen Door
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March 10, 2021
What’s In A Name? For These Famous Texans, Everything.
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May 2, 2018
Ten Songs About Lovin’ The Lone Star State
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February 10, 2021
The Love Story Behind Tom Lea’s ‘Sarah In The Summertime’
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January 27, 2021
Lyndon Johnson’s Gifts To Texas
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January 13, 2021
In Praise Of Vultures
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December 16, 2020
A Letter From Texas. A Poem For Texas.
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May 29, 2019
How The Japanese Americans Who Saved ‘The Lost Battalion’ Of World War II Became Honorary Texans
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October 18, 2017
Missing Whataburger
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September 23, 2020
Texas: A State That Loves Its Flag
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September 9, 2020
The Tragic Story Of Dora Hand
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August 26, 2020
El Llano Estacado: The Vast, Staked, Palisaded Plain
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August 12, 2020
How Madame Curie’s Philanthropy Inspires Texas Doctors
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July 15, 2020
Dichos: Nuggets Of Wisdom
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