Was Eunice Gray, who burned to death in a Jan. 26, 1962 fire that destroyed the Fort Worth hotel she had run for the past four decades, in reality the...

Although everything was in their favor, the Kickapoos, who were only passing through West Texas en route to Mexico, went out of their way to avoid a f...

In just their fourth post-season appearance in school history, the Bears of Baylor University squared off against the heavily favored Tennessee Volunt...

Mortally wounded in a Christmas Eve duel at Gonzales, Virginian Reuben Ross survived the Battle of San Jacinto only to die on Christmas Day 1839. The ...

Ted Healy, the comic genius behind “The Three Stooges,” kissed his wife and three-day old baby goodnight on Dec. 20, 1937 and headed for his favorite ...

Hugh Roy Cullen gave a luncheon at his Houston mansion on Dec. 7, 1949 for Gen. Dwight Eisenhower.  Taking the war hero aside, the Texas oilman echoed...

“Big Bad John,” a talking ballad written and recited by a tall drink of water from the Texas Panhandle, stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 40 for th...

Five dozen Europeans from the slums of New York City set foot in Texas on Dec. 3, 1833 on their way to a promised paradise on the Rio Grande. John Cha...

When the presidential limo came to a screeching halt at Parkland Hospital on Nov. 22, 1963, the Governor of Texas believed John F. Kennedy was dead an...

“What is believed to be the largest field in the country under one fence was broken and sown to wheat this fall by Hickman Price, the most extensive w...