Tristan Smith

Drive down any major highway in America, especially those of you who are hardy road-trippers. As you close in on your city, it doesn’t matter the size really, you can see it approach before you are there. Of course, the…

With an influx of port vessel traffic off the Texas Gulf Coast and the establishment of numerous financial institutions, Galveston’s main business street was famously known as The Strand and dubbed the Wall Street of the Southwest. Since the early…

Known more popularly as a “horned toad,” “horny toad,” or “horned frog,” the Texas Horned Lizard is neither. They are not amphibians, like other toads, but instead are reptiles with claws and scales. Their appearance has a long heritage within Texas history and prehistory. Some Native American tribes revered horned lizards as sacred animals. Throughout

Authentic Place PITCHING IN FOR A BETTER FUTURE For more than two decades, Alvin native Nolan Ryan ruled the diamond. His legacy should speak for itself by this point in history. For more than two decades, Alvin native Nolan Ryan…

Football in Texas. It’s like Whataburger, Buc-ee’s, and the Alamo...it is a Texas institution. High school football transcends; it draws communities together and paves the way for a player’s next step. The National Football League is filled with players from the Lone Star State. The stadiums they play in have storied histories as well. A

Every state celebrates a milestone…sesquicentennial of statehood, or bicentennial of the country, but Texas has something that no other state in the Union truly has – its very own Independence Day, separate from that of 1776. Texas Independence Day is the celebration of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836.

The Leahy brothers, Harry, and his younger brother Willie, were typical young cowboys in 1908 Texas, maybe a little brash and occasionally struck by a wild streak. Their family, with a long linage in Texas, were highly respected residents of Mathis and for many generations owned a ranch in San Patricio County. On one occasion,

There has been a serious resurgence in UFO interest recently. Now referred to as UAPs, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, everyone right up to national intelligence and defense officials are talking about them in the halls of Congress. Whether it’s legend, lore, tall tales, or real, Texas has long been a hotbed of UFO sightings for