Covert mission payback for Mexican raids
At Bird’s Fort north of present-day Arlington, the Snively Expedition officially disbanded on Aug. 7,…
Author Bartee Haile
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…
Twelve Texans flew on Doolittle raid
A ll available participants in the recent “Doolittle Raid” on Japan, including half of the…
Model T leaves electric railway in the dust
Postal inspectors effectively pulled the plug on a Corsicana-to-Palestine electric railway on Dec. 4, 1907…
‘Open forum’ opens minds in Houston and Dallas
As part of the popular “Open Forum” in Houston, Margaret Sanger spoke on “The Need…
American volunteers fight to liberate Texas
The Republican Army of the North, a motley crew of American adventurers and Mexican rebels,…
Terlingua chili, a Texas tradition
It took three days to clean the pots, haul away the mountain of beer cans…