“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...

Leading up to the 1998 execution of ax murderer Karla Faye Tucker, there were repeated references to the fact that a woman had not been put to death i...

The post office at Thurber closed for good on Oct. 28, 1936.  The once thriving mining town hardly had a pulse, and neighboring Mingus was on the crit...

Clutching a suitcase in one hand and a satchel full of cash in the other on Oct. 15, 1878, Mifflin Kenedy caught the train for Dodge City where his so...

The Dallas Texans, first pro football team in the Southwest, proved their season opening defeat was no fluke by losing 37-14 to the San Francisco 49er...

The month long court-martial at Fort Sam Houston ended on the evening of Sep. 30, 1954.  The fate of the lowly corporal accused of collaborating with ...

THISWEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY Col. Billy Mitchell departed San Antonio on Sep. 21, 1925, never to return in uniform to the flight training center. The out...