When is a Cinco Peso coin not a coin? When it’s a Texas Ranger badge.A badge is something we recognize. It’s an emblem that identifies…
Eyes wide open, Steve Schwartz takes a long look at “Old Sparky” and reads about “riding the thunderbolt.” “This is crazy,” Schwartz said with excitement.…
Fort Worth earned a reputation as one of the rough and tumble towns in the…
Clay Allison claimed, “I never killed a man that didn’t need it.” Known as a…
Ever heard of the Wild Bunch? Sundance Kid? Butch Cassidy? In one of the most…
As you are traveling on “The Last American Highway,” U.S. Highway 83, you cannot miss…
My father lived in Arizona for many years; when he died, he left me a…
It’s a stretch, but if one thinks about the first watercolor paintings in Texas, one…
Today, the Old Jail Art Center in Albany is known for names like Pablo Picasso,…
When planning a road trip during the 1920s, travelers had to do some careful planning. …
Be it a witty euphemism or a roundabout slap in the face, describing a county…
Billy the Kid was one of several aliases, but he was born Henry McCarty in1859. McCarty’s…
I have spent most of my life actively avoiding being lost. I suppose it’s a…
Using the words of noted historian Lonn Taylor in his forward for retired sheriff Carl…
Have you ever deliberately tried to spend a night in jail? And gladly paid for…
Early in 1869 an intense manhunt closed in on Cullen Montgomery Baker, a vicious desperado…
