Meet the Winners of the 2021 State Fair of Texas’ Big Tex Choice Awards
The countdown to the State Fair of Texas has officially begun, now that we know which new crazy-decadent fried ... Read More »
Texas Winemakers Get Creative After a Year of Wild Weather Challenges
Like all Texas farmers, grape growers are faced with no easy task when it comes to navigating unpredictable ... Read More »
The Eastside Kings Festival Celebrates the Blues Music that Shaped Austin’s Scene
As an ambassador of Texas blues music, Eddie Stout has played bass in a number of bands, organized overseas ... Read More »
Communities Come Together to Preserve Penatuhkah Comanche History in Texas
The Penatuhkah Comanches have not inhabited the heart of Texas in more than 170 years, but evidence of their ... Read More »
When You’re Too Young for Bullriding, There’s Always Mutton Busting
Open Road | September 2021 Hold on for Your Life A mutton busting competition binds a mother and son to their ... Read More »
How Texas Cowgirls Staked Their Claim in a Man’s World
Mama Sugar swore she’d never move back to the country. “I didn’t want to see the back end of a horse again,” she ... Read More »
Eat Like a Cowboy at These 4 Chuckwagon Experiences
On the banks of the Llano River on an April day, I stroll among cooks in late-19th-century ranch attire. They tend ... Read More »
Where Did All of Texas’ Wild Mustangs Go?
Horsepower Wild mustangs helped shape the state’s cowboy culture By Asher ElbeinTexas used to be horse country. In ... Read More »
A Bronc Rider Beats the Buzzer at the Jim Bowie Days Rodeo in North Texas
While taking photographs this summer for “Fight or Flight,” Dave Shafer visited the Jim Bowie Days Rodeo and ... Read More »
The Brazilian Dominance of the American Professional Bull Riders Circuit
If you’re a rodeo fan, the first thing to catch your eye about Brazilian-born bull rider Silvano Alves is his ... Read More »
The Legend of Pioneering Black Rodeo Cowboy Bill Pickett
Famed rodeo cowboy Bill Pickett was born in 1870 in the community of Jenks Branch, on the border of Travis and ... Read More »
The Tack Shop of a Texas Cowboy’s Dream
Mornings at the Oliver Saddle Shop in Amarillo are rarely quiet. The workshop is filled with the clinking of ... Read More »
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