Part 19, What Kind of a Name is That? Sunset in West Texas How do cities and towns get their names? Most wind up with something very...

Part 18, Queen of the Bayou, Episode 2 The Excelcior Hotel - then To recap: Businessman and robber baron, Jay Gould, had come to...

Part 17:  A Town Called “Queen of the Bayou”, Episode 1 In the piney woods of east Texas, about 21 miles from the Louisiana border, is a...

Part 16, Founding "Parents" of the Texas Panhandle Palo Duro Canyon Three times, I drove to Albuquerque, New Mexico, when my son Zach...

And the angel said unto them, “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you...

With Thanksgiving, 2023 on the horizon, a sudden recall of an old hymn popped into my mind. Back in the day, my family attended a very...

Part 15, Settlers, Struggles, and Squabbles Partial 1845 map of Bowie County, Texas -- Pecan Point and New Boston located near the...

Part 14: Sam Houston and the Enigmatic Stranger Huntsville is a small city of around 47,000, located about an hour north of Houston. Its...

Part Thirteen: Elizabeth Crockett and Her Roving Husband Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Deborah Franklin – wives of men who figured...

Part Twelve, A Town Named for a Coin When I was a freshman at Sam Houston State University, my then-boyfriend and I often left out on a...

Part 11, Fifty Tons of Granite Four miles north of Fredericksburg, Texas, there is a place called Bear Mountain. In reality, it’s not so...

Part 10, Contigo Ranch and Crabapple Memorial Day Weekend --- Road trip south with my son Zach to attend a family wedding. It was to be...

Part 9, Charles and His Much-Loved Invention Travel south from Dallas on Interstate 35 and in about 90 minutes, depending on traffic,...

Part 8, The Muncey Massacre, Installment 2 Wooded area on the east side of Rowlett Creek, part of Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve It...

Part 8, The Muncey Massacre -- Installment 1 Raiding to gain those fine, Kentucky horses. . . In the fall of 1844, Jeremiah Muncey, his...

Part 7, The Camels of Camp Verde This story begins with an action taken by Jefferson Davis. A few years before he became President of the...

Part 6, German Pioneer Christmas Restored Doeppenschmidt-Haas house, east of Fredericksburg, TX, a fine example of the early settlers...

Part 5: Sophia, More Fiction Than Fact? Texas has its share of colorful male characters, but it doesn’t lack in numbers of vivid women,...

Part 4: A Genuine Ghost Town -- In More Ways Than One In the early years of the Texas republic, people of strong character trekked from...

A State Historic Site Last week, a friend and I made the short field trip to Denison, a small city located about 75 miles north of...