The last performance of ‘The Great Impostor’
A Texas prison inmate thumbing through a dog-eared copy of the Jan. 13, 1952 issue…
Author Bartee Haile
West Texas ranchers defy future governor
Panhandle cattlemen called the attorney general’s bluff on Jan. 9, 1886 by indicting themselves on…
How did ‘Three Stooges’ creator die?
Ted Healy, the comic genius behind “The Three Stooges,” kissed his wife and three-day old…
Problem after problem for Lamar
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, second president of the Texas Republic, dropped dead of a heart attack…
Colonizer takes slum refugees to hell on earth
Five dozen Europeans from the slums of New York City set foot in Texas on…
Condemned cop killer faces execution with a smile
A minute before midnight on Nov. 29, 1930, the condemned cop killer finished a letter…
Actor’s hit-man father killed a federal judge
Minutes after the fatal shooting of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas police found…
Bowie goes looking for silver and finds Indians
Jim Bowie went looking for underground riches in 1831 but found instead a bunch of…
Playing hard to get works well
Concerned over Texas’ increasingly cozy relationship with the British, the U.S. Secretary of State informed…
Lt. Governor not much of a shortcut
T. Whitfield Davidson was elected lieutenant governor on Nov. 7, 1922, but the second highest…