Abernathy brothers rode their way to fame
President William Howard Taft, all 335 pounds of him, personally welcomed the Abernathy brothers to…
Browsing: This Week in Texas History
Third deadliest tornado devastates Sherman, Texas
Volunteers, cash donations and emergency supplies continued to pour into Sherman on May 22, 1896…
Steamboat Yellow Stone kept revolution afloat
In a May 19, 1837 letter to the speaker of the Republic house of representatives,…
Austin area ax murderer and Jack the Ripper the same fiend?
[From December 1884 to September 1885, an ax-wielding killer took the lives of five women…
Ax murderer preyed on city of Austin in 1880s
An ax-swinging fiend that had terrorized the Texas capital for weeks struck again on the…
‘Black blizzard’ looked like the end of the world
On April 22, 1935, West Texans were still feeling the effects of the “black blizzard”…
One jury Deacon Jim could not charm
“Deacon Jim” Miller, the prime suspect in the ambush of Pat Garrett and many other…
Baseball fans turn out to see stars of yesteryear
More than 50,000 Texans filled two-thirds of the mammoth Cotton Bowl on April 11, 1950…
Priest pulls off two great escapes
A weary diplomat boarded the Independence at New Orleans on April 7, 1837 for the…
Cowboy actor sabotaged his own movie career
Sunset Carson, a star of 1940s westerns, made one of his countless personal appearances on…