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Michael Martin Murphey playing guitar on a stage decorated for Christmas with other musicians

Michael Martin Murphey Saddles Up for Cowboy Christmas Tour

Murphey, a working cowboy who divides his time between ranches in Amarillo and Colorado, embraces and celebrates what he calls the cowboy way of life

By Michelle Burgess
December 3, 2018
Illustration of Liz Lambert with her hotels

Austin Hotelier Liz Lambert Talks Texas—from Midland to Marfa to South Congress

November 28, 2018
A look at the Texas state capitol in 1947

Downtown Christmas Lights in the Capital City in 1947

November 28, 2018
Illustration of West Texas

Open Road

Why Every Woman Should Take a Solo Road Trip

By Sarah Hepola
November 28, 2018

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Al Borrego stands in front of the Horseshoe Dinner Theatre

My Hometown: Southwestern History Runs Deep in the Border Town of San Elizario

November 28, 2018
A fiddler, guitarist, and bassist on stage under an American flag

Festival of Texas Fiddling to Highlight Diverse Fiddle Styles in Blanco

By Matt Joyce
November 26, 2018
Sarah Bird with her Corgi, True

Sarah Bird’s New Historical Novel Is Wild as an Acre of Snakes

November 7, 2018
Illustration of Laura Bush

Former First Lady Laura Bush Takes Us on a Tour of Her Prairie Chapel Flower Garden

November 1, 2018
Gerard Thompson of Rough Creek Lodge

Executive Chef Gerard Thompson Embraces Biscuits and Frito Pie at the Lauded Rough Creek Lodge

November 1, 2018
A longhorn in a field

Home on the Texas Range, Where the Longhorns and Bison Play

October 31, 2018
Acharya Shree Yogeesh poses

Need to Recenter? Try the Silent Treatment

October 29, 2018
Illustration of swimmer at Paisano Ranch

Open Road

At Paisano Ranch, the Spirit of J. Frank Dobie—and the Muses—Abide

By Sarah Bird
October 25, 2018
San Felipe Mayor Bobby Byars

My Hometown: Explore San Felipe with the Town Mayor, a Descendant of a Slave from the Days of Stephen F. Austin’s First Colony

October 25, 2018
Judge Roy Bean on horseback.

On the West Texas Frontier, Judge Roy Bean Doled Out Justice as the ‘Law West of the Pecos’

October 24, 2018
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