July 2021 Features A Photographer Highlights the Multidimensional Beauty of El Paso Behold the Bounty of the Blanco Embark on Texas’ Great Pop Culture Pilgrimages Departments Editor’s Note River King My Hometown Sam Rayburn Is Still the Pride of Bonham in East Texas Open Road A Texan by Way of Oklahoma Shares the Unexpected Enchantment of Traveling I-35 Speaking of Texas Essayist Rick Bass Shares How the Texas Landscape Shaped Him Texana Unveiling the Stories of Black State Senators in Post-Civil War Texas Drive / Atlas East Texas’ Swampy Wetlands Wouldn’t Exist Without Beavers Drive / Wild Can Sewage Water Save El Paso? Drive / Made in Texas How TikTok Helped Rio Grande Clay Gain National Attention Plates Big Pines Lodge Has Been a Caddo Lake Staple Since the 1950s Plates The Texas Origins of the Frozen Margarita Machine Plates Family Is the Key Ingredient at Fredericksburg’s Hill Top Cafe Vintage Boaters Pose in Front of the Marble Falls Around 1900 Daytripper The Daytripper Checks Out the Heart of Czech Country Sightseer The View from 30 Feet Under Jacob’s Well