Two of the biggest names in 1920s New York society proudly embraced their Texas roots: Tex Rickard and Texas Guinan. Both were larger-than-life personalities, and the name “Texas” suited them perfectl...

This story comes from the dark secrets of Masonic tradition. Freemasonry in Fort Worth traces its roots to 1854, when Texas' first Masonic Lodge No. 148 was established here, which

This is the story of a boy who loved Christmas so much that he grew up and made it more magical for the rest of us. That boy became an artist, and his name is Jack Sorenson. He spent his childhood on...

By many measures, Larry McMurtry is Texas’s greatest writer. In 1961, at just 25 years old, he wrote the widely acclaimed novel Horseman, Pass By; two years later

Every devastating hurricane is remembered in its own unique way. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is remembered mainly for the New Orleans levee failures and the paralyzing chaos that followed. The hurricane...

In the novel and television miniseries Lonesome Dove, Charles Goodnight inspired the character of Captain W. F. Call, played by Tommy Lee Jones. In reality, Charles Goodnight was

New York City has held more than 200 ticker-tape parades since the first in 1886, celebrating the Statue of Liberty. Charles Lindbergh received one for his solo transatlantic flight. Athlete J

This is the biography of a word. It is about a word that was born in Texas as a simple noun, grew up and found success here, and eventually became famous

When Richard King, founder of the King Ranch, died in 1885, his ranch covered about half a million acres in the inhospitable region of South Texas that some called the Wild Horse Desert and others the...

Tom Landry and Charles Schulz died on the same day: February 12, 2000. Detroit Free Press cartoonist Mike Thompson paid tribute to them with a cartoon showing them entering the gates of heaven togethe...

Texas gave the world many colorful characters, but none was as flamboyant as the multifaceted Judge Roy Bean. He packed many larger-than-life roles into one lifetime. In fact, he became a legendary ju...