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June 2022

On the Cover

Texas and Louisiana Find Common Ground Along Toledo Bend Reservoir

The bass fishing mecca touts stunning lake views, tasty tamales and meat pies, and shoreside cabins

By Clayton Maxwell
May 26, 2022

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Road Trips

Laredo Is the Land of Always Both and Neither

By Katie Gutierrez
May 26, 2022

History

Karankawa Descendants are Reclaiming Their Heritage After Being Written Off as Extinct

By John Nova Lomax
May 26, 2022
A woman in a blue shirt holds a basketball while leaning against a metal building on a farm

Like a Local

The Good Life of Hoops and Ranching in Perryton

By Jason Boyett
May 26, 2022
A purple, blue and gold sunset over the gray banks of Amistad Reservoir

Getaway

A Weekend Getaway in Del Rio’s Oasis of Borderland Culture

By Sarah Thurmond
May 26, 2022
A woman walks down the street near a mural reading "El Abrazo"

Editor's Note

You Can Go Home Again

By Emily Roberts Stone
May 26, 2022
An illustration of a man wearing a t-shirt with a man's face in a cowboy hat

Speaking of Texas

Texas Humor’s Founder Jay B. Sauceda Considers the Texas Identity

By Clayton Maxwell
May 26, 2022
Two people embrace while others move around in the background offering fist bumps under blue sky along the Rio Grande

Drive

The Hugs Not Walls Program Reunites Families Along the Rio Grande

By Roberto José Andrade Franco
May 26, 2022

Fuel

Beer Salt Is a Texas Tradition, Y’all

By Anthony Head
May 26, 2022
The exterior of an adobe building under a desert sky and mountains

History

Big Bend’s Oldest Surviving Adobe Structure Gets a Makeover

By Matt Joyce
May 26, 2022
An ocelot slinks along a green grass field in front of green trees

Drive

The Habitats of Wild Creatures Transcend Lines Drawn on Paper

By Melissa Gaskill
May 26, 2022
A vintage photograph of a cockfight

Vintage

Cockfighting Flourished in Texas in the Early 1900s

By Traces of Texas
May 26, 2022
Yellow sunlight dips below a dark blue horizon along the water

Sightseer

A Peaceful Sunrise Brightens the Laguna Madre Shoreline in South Texas

May 26, 2022

Open Road

A Father and Daughter Share a Devotion to Charreadas in Del Rio

By Marcela Fuentes
May 26, 2022
A man in a small cowboy hat stands in front of a large rock mountain under blue cloudy sky

The Daytripper

The Daytripper Meets the Goat Mayor of Lajitas

By Chet Garner
May 26, 2022

Barbecue

Distant Relatives Spotlights Plantation Cooking’s Influence on American Barbecue

By Laurel Miller
May 26, 2022

June 2022

The June 2022 cover of Texas Highways Magazine, featuring an illustration of Texas objects and the text "Postcards from the Perimeter"
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