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The Chili Queens of San Antonio
The queens stood in the glare of the lanterns night after night and helped to make San Antonio famous as a quaint and romantic city. Frank H. Bushick…
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Over the Far Horizon
The Panhandle is so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days. Old Texas Saying Texas is a big place. In an 1889 New York Times editorial, the…
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Texas Paintings: "The Battle of San Jacinto" (1898)
Some of those senators didn’t know as much as a chicken about art. One senator said you could get photographs that big a lot cheaper. Ruskin McArdle…
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A Texan By Any Other Name
We always call them TEXANS. The Editors of the New-York Commercial Advertiser We Texans have toted around many a moniker throughout our history. In the…
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Chuckwagons and Biscuit Shooters
The roads on this rough and colorful range were ground into being by [the chuckwagon’s] broad-tired wheels, engineered by the wagon cook and his…
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Naming the Alamo Dead
“Good name in man and women, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” Texas is my rooting ground, so I…
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Eyewitness at the Birth of Texas
Mr. Childers . . . reported a Declaration of Independence. William Fairfax Gray, Diary, March 2, 1836 Chances are you’ve never heard of the man…
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Texas Essentials: Songs
“Beautiful, beautiful Texas. . . . The most beautiful place that I know.” W. Lee O’Daniel, “Beautiful Texas” In April 2004 Texas Monthly published, “The…
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Saddle Slickers, Heel Squatters, and Other Cowboy Names
The cow-boy.—the Cowboy! How often spoken of, how falsely imagined, how greatly despised (where not known), how little understood! J. B. “Texas Jack…
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