History

The Original Texans

Tonkawa Creek spills over time-worn rocky bluffs and splashes into a clear blue-green pool at Tonkawa Falls ... Read More »

When it’s 3 a.m. and you’re standing in front of a century-old church, watching the lights on twirling ... Read More »

Forty years ago, a most unusual performance and arts space opened its doors in downtown Fort Worth. A two-story ... Read More »

Thelma Bray had lived in Pampa for almost 60 years when she first heard that America’s greatest folk singer, Woody ... Read More »

Buses filled with elderly men lumbered down dusty Panhandle roads and rolled to a stop at the edge of a cornfield. ... Read More »

Texas has always attracted its share of odd people, and Bill Brown was no exception. Brown, shown here with ... Read More »

About 50 miles south of downtown Dallas on Interstate 35—when the strip malls of the metroplex give way to ... Read More »

If some of Texas’ historic bank-turned-hotel walls could talk, they would tell stories of wealth and loss. Tales ... Read More »

As we creep into spooky season, and haunted houses and general scary-ment are in full swing, it’s time for us to ... Read More »

Port Arthur is known to some for petrochemicals, Gulf Coast hurricanes, and being the hometown of rock star Janis ... Read More »

A little more than a mile from where Dallas founder John Neely Bryan’s reconstructed cabin marks the first ... Read More »

"Slinging” Sammy Baugh, pictured here as quarterback for the Washington Redskins (now Commanders), embodied ... Read More »

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