Texas History
August 31, 1978
The Sons of the Pioneers
Miles from their nearest neighbors, beset by drought, debt, insects, and government, Panhandle farmers gamble everything to keep alive a tradition they can’t abandon.
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Texas History
June 30, 1978
On the Waterfront
It was Memorial Day weekend and the pickings were slim. Most of the ships that normally would have been in port lay anchored in Galveston Bay so they wouldn’t have to pay time and a half to longshoremen. The old longshoreman they called Goat made his rounds, cadging drinks and looking
Texas History
February 1, 1978
San Antonio is Better Than Houston, Dallas, or Anyplace Else
Some disagree. They are wrong.
Texas History
February 1, 1978
Houston is Better Than Dallas
It is boorish, cluttered, aggravating, rich, beautiful, explosive, titillating, cosmopolitan, endearing, and has a full head of steam.
Texas History
February 1, 1978
Dallas Is Better Than Houston
Big D is not called Big D for nothing.
Texas History
September 30, 1977
What’s Red, White, and Blue . . . And Orange All Over?
The Orange Show’s 75-year-old creator, Jeff McKissack, still goes dancing and is sure he will live to be a hundred.Never heard of the Orange Show? Then you’ve missed a razzle-dazzle piece of American folk art—an amusement park/sideshow that looks like a topless castle designed by a committee
Texas History
April 30, 1977
The Other Texas
Rio Grande City Michael Patrick Houston Suzanne Paul Austin Harry Boyd Rosenberg Joe Baraban Ingram Harry Boyd Hillsboro Nicolas Russell Martindale
Texas History
April 30, 1977
Grand Hotels
You won’t find Greta Garbo at these classic establishments, but some things that happen there are straight out of a movie.
Records
February 1, 1977
The Last Record Store
There’s a heaven for record collectors and it’s in the middle of West Texas.
Sports
February 1, 1977
Stars and Stripes
The rodeo where it really doesn’t pay to win.
Texas History
January 1, 1977
How to Be Southern
Southwestern is out, Southern is in. Here’s how to renew our charter membership.
Texas History
November 1, 1976
Whatever Happened to the New Generation?
What are the sixties’ radicals doing for an encore?
Texas History
September 30, 1976
State Fair
The roar of the grease, the smell of the corny dog.
Texas History
August 31, 1976
Making the Best of It
A great photographer looks at plain people caught in the hard times of another Texas.
Music
July 31, 1976
The Passions of the Common Man
That’s what country music is, and that’s why it plays in Peoria.
Texas History
May 31, 1976
Our Town
Every small town is different; every small town is the same.
Books
April 1, 1976
The Last Kid on the Block
Elmer Wayne Henley is neither safe nor sorry.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1976
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Hugh Aynesworth can’t escape what he witnessed in 1963.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1976
Remembering LBJ
Lyndon Johnson left an indelible impression on people—and a few black and blue marks, too.
Texas History
January 1, 1976
Historical Markers You Will Never See
Sometimes the history books leave out the best part.
Texas History
November 1, 1975
Who Was Jack Ruby?
If you thought you knew, you were probably wrong.
Texas History
September 30, 1975
Bury My Heart at the Souvenir Shop
The Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation is a braves’ new world.
Libations
August 31, 1975
The Truth about Tequila
From machismo to counterculture in one decade.
Film & TV
January 1, 1975
The Naked and the D.A.
The war against pornography can get dirty.
Texas History
January 1, 1975
The Americanization of Texas
Reflections on the disappearance of the independent Texan.
Texas History
January 1, 1975
Divide and Conquer
Five states are better than one, when they’re all named Texas.
Texas History
January 31, 1974
Going Home to Arlington
How do you find a folksy town of 7,500 people 20 years later in a sprawling city of 110,000?
Texas History
December 1, 1973
Why Dallas?
When John Neely Bryan built his cabin he didn't know what would happen to Big D as it grew, or why it would happen. A. C. Greene searches through old photographs and records to give us the answer.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1973
Mother of the Decade
Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie’s shadow.
Texas History
September 30, 1973
Closing Down La Grange
An Aggie views the closing of the Chicken Ranch. George Washington didn’t sleep there, but many famous and unfamous Texans did.
Texas History
August 31, 1973
The Death of the Marlboro Man
Old Glory is a long way from Madison Avenue, and Bigun Bradley probably knew it.
Texas History
July 31, 1973
The Last Romantic Outlaw
Tired of running, he let himself be caught; then he busted right out again.
Texas History
June 30, 1973
Sam Houston, Warts and All
A good woman finally marries the wild frontier man and saves him from himself. Manifestly destiny.
Texas History
May 31, 1973
Touts
Cute Toot-TootAmtrak notwithstanding, countless unfulfilled railroad buffs still reside in Texas.For these unsatiated appetites, a genuine “little railroad that could” still makes daily runs in East Texas. The Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad was begun in 1927 as passenger service between the sawmill town of Camden and the railroad
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1973
Farewell to LBJ: A Hill Country Valediction
Some last words, reverent and irreverent, like Lyndon himself.
Texas History
April 1, 1973
Briar Patch
IF FORTUNE MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, the fortunes of death make the strangest of all. In the state cemetery in Austin, J. Frank Dobie, Ma and Pa Ferguson, and Big Foot Wallace lie within a 30-yard radius of one another. Their graves are near the top of a small hill which
Texas History
December 31, 1969
Lone On The Range: Texas Lawmen
A history of the Texas Rangers.