The great Texas flood of 1921
The Houston Chronicle reported on Sep. 12, 1921 that the number of confirmed fatalities in…
Author Bartee Haile
Forgotten heroes of the Korean War
A 20-year-old corporal from Fort Hancock sacrificed his life on the night of Sept. 6-7, 1952…
Famous Ranger haunted by scandalous skeleton
Under the assumed name of George Washington Arrington, an Alabama fugitive enlisted in the Frontier…
Texas’ future chief justice fought a duel
An angry John Hemphill demanded satisfaction in an Aug. 27, 1832 letter to the editor…
Gov’s goon squad terrorized Texas
The trigger-happy state police opened fire without warning on a crowd of Saturday shoppers in…
Covert mission payback for Mexican raids
At Bird’s Fort north of present-day Arlington, the Snively Expedition officially disbanded on Aug. 7,…
Blind orphan whistled through life
With the encouragement of his piano teacher at the Texas School for the Blind, Fred…
Saloon shooting changed young Texan’s life
By July 26, 1881, the desperate young cowboy had put a hundred miles between him…
Lawmen beat the bushes for fugitive inmates
In the second mass escape in two weeks from the same Texas prison farm, eight…
Bogus millionaires pull wool over everybody’s eyes
A Gainesville jury tried to decide on June 30, 1967 whether Ernest and Margaret Medders were…