Texans elect last president of Republic
Texans turned out in record numbers on Sept. 9, 1844 to pick a president for…
Author Bartee Haile
Texans fight for ‘grey-eyed man of destiny’
Two hundred Texans looking for a fight answered the call of Gen. William Walker and…
Texas switches from the noose to ‘Old Sparky’
With the modern and supposedly more humane electric chair due to replace the gallows at…
Austin regrets ever meeting soldier of fortune
As the two men parted on Aug. 25, 1822, Stephen F. Austin asked General Arthur…
Nothing could keep Angelina down
Angelina Eberly, who took everything frontier life threw at her and kept coming back for…
Comanches debate fate of Texas peacemakers
Three white peacemakers nervously waited for the Comanche council to decide whether they lived or…
Brave citizens go after tower sniper
At noon on Aug. 1, 1966, Allen Crum, the floor manager at the University Co-Op,…
Texas History: Jim Well’s word was law in the valley
Twenty-eight-year-old James Babbage Wells, Jr. arrived at the southern tip of Texas on July 22,…
Amelia Earhart’s SOS heard in the Panhandle
In the wee hours of July 3, 1937, a woman in Amarillo listened to missing…
White outlaws go on warpath with Indians
A much anticipated report reached the governor’s desk on June 27, 1859. It really was…