My uncle told me this story, and now I’ll try to share it with you in his own words... When I was fifteen, my mother bought me a truck so I could drive myself to work. The state of Texas issued me a d...

Of all the images that shape our idea of Texas, one particular type of person remains among the most vivid and enduring. Second only to the cowboy, perhaps, is the hardheaded oilman leading a rugged l...

Fort Worth had always been racially divided, but sharp and uncompromising boundaries between people emerged with the rise of the so-called Jim Crow era in the late 19th century. The term “Jim Crow” re...

A widely repeated legend claims that Robert E. Lee, then serving in Texas before the Civil War broke out, once stood on the bluff where a fort had been built in 1849 and declared that...

Harry Houdini (1874–1926) was the greatest entertainer of his era. The illusionist and escape artist, born Erich Weiss, built his own legend through spectacular shows featuring seemingly impossible fe...

Before World War I, Vernon and Irene Castle were the darlings of the stage on both sides of the Atlantic. They were the true “beautiful people” of their era, the first famous power couple with major i...

In an era before Enlightenment ideas had entered the legal system, the law regarded women as wards of men who held complete authority over them. This principle was firmly embedded in both legal status...

The Metropolitan Hotel was Fort Worth's first luxury hotel. It was built in 1898 by Winfield Scott, a cattleman turned hotelier. The building occupied the entire eastern side of the block along the st...

Fort Worth has loved its Horned Frogs since 1911, and Bevo has plenty of fans here too. Yet for years, the Aggies had only a small visible footprint in the city—until 2013, when Texas A&M

Well into the 21st century, we have learned to be less critical, more open to gender equality, and more sensitive about physical appearance. “Diversity” and “political correctness” are in fashion, whi...

... The Fort Worth Police Department had an especially complicated relationship with streetcars. In 1918, Dallas traffic officer Max Doughty explained to reporters how officers directing traffic had t...

The arrival of public transit in Fort Worth in the form of railroads and streetcars, both in 1876, marked a tremendous leap forward as the city grew from a small frontier settlement into a major metro...