Santa Anna pulls the wool over president’s eyes
President James K. Polk issued a secret order on May 13, 1846 granting an infamous exile safe passage through U.S. lines.
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The real story behind the ‘Sugarland Express’
As the sun came up on May 2, 1969, a young couple got the drop on the highway patrolman who answered their phony plea for help at an isolated ranch in southeast Texas.
Texans celebrate 50th anniversary of San Jacinto
In towns big and small across the Lone Star State, old and young came together on April 21, 1886 to celebrate a very special San Jacinto Day.
Robert E. Lee turns down Houston’s secret offer
Still wearing the Union blue, Col. Robert E. Lee took charge of an isolated outpost on the Texas frontier on April 12, 1856.
The boxing champ America loved to hate
Jack Johnson climbed into a Havana ring on April 5, 1915 to defend the heavyweight boxing title he had held for seven stormy years.
The ups and downs of Texas’ first president
Confederate Col. William E. Burnet, son of the first president of Texas, was buried in Alabama on April 2, 1863.
Soldier-for-hire leads Spaniards against Apaches
Gen. Hugo Oconor, an Irish mercenary on the Spanish payroll, submitted for the viceroy’s approval on March 24, 1775 an ambitious plan to annihilate the Apaches.
Senator gives up seat to run for governor
On Mar. 14, 1956, Sen. Price Daniel went on statewide television to offer his services as governor.
Two Texans ride and rob with ‘Wild Bunch’
The sole survivor of the most famous outlaw photo shoot in the history of the Old West was killed during the robbery of a West Texas train on March 12, 1912.
Texans drive longhorns to market along Chisholm’s Trail
Jesse Chisholm’s Indian dinner guests survived the main course of bad buffalo meat cooked in a copper kettle, but the grizzled trader came down with a fatal case of food poisoning on March 4, 1868.
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