Authentic People
For almost a half-century, he’s crisscrossed the state as sort of a “detective,” gathering artifacts and clues, assessing the evidence and arriving at well-thought-out conclusions…
“West Texas Heritage” is a term that saturates Belt Buckle Distillery—the “Big Country’s” first and only distillery. Located in downtown Abilene, the enterprise has…
Garland Holt Richards grew up thinking everyone had a historic frontier fort in their backyard. Born in San Angelo in 1952, he attended Bronte…
“Prolific” cannot begin to describe Mike Cox, the celebrated Texas author of more than 30 non-fiction books and hundreds of magazine articles, newspaper columns and…
When young university student, Donna Shaver arrived at Padre Island National Seashore in 1980 from Syracuse N.Y., she fell in love with both the ocean…
Words used to describe John L. Nau III include successful business executive, inspiring leader, citizen advocate, collector, philanthropist, conservationist, and tireless champion for historic preservation…
“Nobody in the literary world would have touched a book narrated by a ranch dog who was five bales short of a full load of…
On a workaday Tuesday noon, this stretch of historic Route 66 on the west side of Amarillo, Texas, looks like your ordinary Anywhere USA. A…
