Alamo coward leaves comrades to die
While the Alamo heroes fought to the last man on March 6, 1836, a cowardly…
Author Bartee Haile
Comanches not easy pickings for buffalo hunters
Acting like the Paul Revere of the Texas Panhandle, Pat Garrett rode from camp to…
Triple lynching touches off feud
A masked mob dragged five suspected cattle thieves kicking and screaming from the Mason County…
Mustangs ride All-American to Final Four
Jim Krebs scored a Southwest Conference record 50 points on Feb. 8, 1956 to power…
Infamous fugitive flees to Brazil
The news out of Brazil on Jan. 30, 1977 was that a 19-year fugitive from…
‘Divine Sarah’ played to packed houses
Sarah Bernhardt’s special train rolled into Dallas on Jan. 24, 1892 for the first of…
Governor pushes martial law
On Jan. 13, 1903, the day he began his third term in the Texas House…
Texan warned FDR about Pearl Harbor attack
Admiral James Otto Richardson met with Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Jan. 5, 1941 and for…
Young Texan picks wrong hero to worship
Billy the Kid rode into Fort Sumner, New Mexico with five fellow fugitives on the…
Texans pay through the nose for compromise
In an angry editorial on Dec. 5, 1849, an influential Austin newspaper advocated a scorched-earth…