Using the words of noted historian Lonn Taylor in his forward for retired sheriff Carl Williams’ book: “More than a…
Browsing: #Fall 2021
It’s a stretch, but if one thinks about the first watercolor paintings in Texas, one may consider it to be…
Today, the Old Jail Art Center in Albany is known for names like Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Grant…
When planning a road trip during the 1920s, travelers had to do some careful planning. In those days, cars could…
Be it a witty euphemism or a roundabout slap in the face, describing a county jail’s occupants as “comfortably lodged”…
Fort Worth earned a reputation as one of the rough and tumble towns in the Old West, and most of…
Clay Allison claimed, “I never killed a man that didn’t need it.” Known as a cattle broker and rancher, when…
Ever heard of the Wild Bunch? Sundance Kid? Butch Cassidy? In one of the most famous outlaw photos every taken,…
As you are traveling on “The Last American Highway,” U.S. Highway 83, you cannot miss the sprawling Collingsworth County Pioneer’s…
Billy the Kid was one of several aliases, but he was born Henry McCarty in1859. McCarty’s trouble with the law started…