Stories From Texas

November 24, 2022

Commentary: ‘Three red marbles’ is a story fitting for Thanksgiving

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October 22, 2025

Commentary: The two men who rescued Shiner Beer

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October 8, 2025

Commentary: They called her ‘Babe’

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September 24, 2025

Commentary: Belle and Lea

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September 11, 2025

Commentary: Cowboy Time

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August 14, 2024

Frito pie, a mainstay under Friday night lights, is a Texas original

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August 13, 2025

Commentary: The sky welcomes you home

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May 18, 2022

The Sorcerer’s Cave is the deepest – and possibly longest – cave in Texas

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July 16, 2025

Commentary: The hat that made the cowboy

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July 2, 2025

Commentary: Creative smuggling when Texas was a republic

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June 13, 2025

Commentary: Tips from a Texas 10-year-old – and her dad

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A ful moon in the night sky.
May 21, 2025

Commentary: The Comanche Moon

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A black-and-white lithograph of a theater building with six columns at its entrance.
April 23, 2025

Commentary: How New York aided the Texas Revolution

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April 9, 2025

Commentary: Texas euphemisms

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March 26, 2025

Commentary: Whistling while you work

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March 12, 2025

Commentary: The 100th meridian

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April 8, 2020

Things Redneck Dave said to me on the drive across Texas

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the texas flag
January 29, 2025

Commentary: John Steinbeck (and Charley) on Texas

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October 21, 2015

The top 12 quotes from ‘Lonesome Dove’

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January 13, 2025

Do you have a favorite W.F. Strong story? Here are our top 10

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December 18, 2024

Commentary: Fronters and backers

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December 4, 2024

Commentary: A tale of a stolen town

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November 20, 2024

Commentary: The Gruver Farm Scholarship Foundation

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November 7, 2024

Commentary: Could Napoleon have ruled over Texas?

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October 23, 2024

Commentary: A second siege of the Alamo

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October 9, 2024

Commentary: My brush with fate or serendipity

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October 17, 2018

Climbing the tallest towers in Texas

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July 13, 2022

What Elvis Presley owed West Texas

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August 28, 2024

Some of the best Texans have been Californians – on the silver screen, at least

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September 4, 2019

Texans are experts at spinning tall tales, even today

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July 3, 2024

Commentary: He who has the gold, makes the rules

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A cloudy sky seen above beach on Padre Island
June 19, 2024

The craziest race you’ve never heard of happened on Padre Island

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an illustration featuring a blue smiling cartoon toad from the side, facing left and smiling over a close-up of a map with various red and green lines and notations. the illustration also features two greenish-blue cartoon images of lollipops or suckers.
May 4, 2022

What happened to Toadsuck, Texas?

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April 10, 2024

Commentary: ‘Counting cattle with the fathers’

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October 7, 2020

Norfleet: The Texas rancher who kept on coming

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May 1, 2019

The Legend Of The Lady In Blue

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March 13, 2024

Commentary: Take a drive through the ‘other’ Hill Country

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February 28, 2024

Commentary: The mystery of the Texas box

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February 14, 2024

Bonnie and Clyde: Star-synced lovers

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June 27, 2018

Pink Cadillacs and lucky 13: How Mary Kay Ash built a billion-dollar business

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March 11, 2020

Jim Bowie, the original influencer

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January 3, 2024

Commentary: New Year’s Eve on Houston Street

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December 20, 2023

Commentary: The gift of the tidelands

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December 6, 2023

Commentary: La Pitada

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November 22, 2023

Talkin’ turkey: Cuero celebrates its history, races for bragging rights at annual Turkeyfest

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November 29, 2017

The surprising lesson of Judge Roy Bean’s life: It’s never too late

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November 8, 2023

Commentary: Found in translation

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October 25, 2023

Commentary: On censorship

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October 31, 2018

How moms use the legend of La Llorona to keep their kids in line

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March 20, 2019

The mystery of the Osage murders

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September 13, 2023

Texas as God’s Country

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June 3, 2020

How Texas became a desert

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August 16, 2023

How Fort Worth was saved by the railroad

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August 3, 2023

The historical accuracy of ‘Lonesome Dove’

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July 19, 2023

Texas Spelling Bee

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July 5, 2023

The Second Sacking of San Antonio

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June 21, 2023

The 50th anniversary of ‘The Time It Never Rained’

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June 29, 2016

Oscar Wilde’s tour of Texas gives us life

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May 24, 2023

Farmer logic

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April 26, 2023

What is a handshake worth?

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April 12, 2023

The story of Sancho, a steer who loved Texas and tamales

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March 29, 2023

Commentary: It’s my turn

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March 1, 2023

Commentary: Quinta Mazatlan, a garden refuge in McAllen, is an extension of the man who built it

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February 7, 2018

My Valentine: A Life-Changing, Theme Song-Singing, Nail-Painting Love

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February 1, 2023

Commentary: Tom Hoskins and his ‘Thousand Points of Light’

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March 22, 2017

We Might Oughtta Praise Texas Grammar

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January 4, 2023

The Port Mansfield Cut and the treasure discovered there

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December 21, 2022

Commentary: Jesse H. Jones was a model philanthropist

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March 21, 2018

Samuel Walker: The Real ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’

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October 5, 2016

Sure, Texas Is Big – But It Used to Be Even Bigger

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October 12, 2022

‘Yonderings’ may be the best travel guide for Big Bend

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September 14, 2022

Wright Bacon: A Texas original

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February 9, 2022

Remembering Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Texas

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August 24, 2022

Commentary: Flying to school on my Western Flyer, in 1962

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July 27, 2016

The Life of Tom Landry, the Man in the Hat

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July 27, 2022

Falcon Lake, now at devastatingly low capacity, has a storied history

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November 4, 2020

The Texas Connection To Colorado’s Royal Gorge Bridge

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April 19, 2017

The One Musician To Get A Ticker-Tape Parade Was A Texan

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June 1, 2022

In memoriam: A tribute to the 21 lives lost in the Uvalde school shooting

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April 20, 2022

That time Uncle Dale made us a baseball field

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A shadowy tractor plows the ground as a deep read collage of watermelon slices looms in the background
March 23, 2022

Heard the one about the pessimistic farmer?

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An image of a speeding steam train in bursting through the outline of Texas.
March 9, 2022

Texas was built by railroads

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A smiling LBJ hoists a baby on his lap amid a whimsical background in this art.
January 26, 2022

LBJ’s secret weapon was his sense of humor

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January 12, 2022

There’s a lot more than bluebonnets. Do you know these other official Texas symbols?

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a strand of barbed wire in the sun
December 29, 2021

Atrocious but efficient: How ranchers used barbed wire to make phone calls

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December 15, 2021

That time Jim Bob and Billy Fred went ice fishing

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December 1, 2021

Why George Washington Brackenridge is Texas’ greatest philanthropist

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Illustration: In the foreground, a cell phone with a navigation icon it. Behind it, a road stretching off into the distance
November 17, 2021

Hey, Jim Bob: How long until we get a navigation app with a Texan accent?

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November 3, 2021

The Texan origins of the word ‘maverick’

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October 20, 2021

The Texas bed and breakfast for the peregrine falcon

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October 6, 2021

The young lieutenant who crossed the Wild Horse Desert

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September 22, 2021

Texas And The Art Of Understatement

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There are many words we use daily that we might believe are native to English or even Texas, but are foreign. Here's a few that fit the bill.
September 8, 2021

People Aren’t The Only Migrants. Words Travel Too.

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August 25, 2021

France Went Whole Hog On Texas Independence – Until Some Pigs Got In The Way

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July 28, 2021

Plumbing The Depths Of Jacob’s Well

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June 30, 2021

Long Before Elon Musk, A Different Man Had A Plan To Develop Boca Chica

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June 16, 2021

There’s Something About A Person Named Tex

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June 2, 2021

The Backbreaking Work Of Watermelon Season

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May 19, 2021

It’s One Of Texas’ Oldest Businesses. You May Not Know The Name, But You’ve Almost Certainly Tasted The Food.

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May 6, 2020

The Hero Of Cinco De Mayo Was A Texan

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NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE,
YOU’RE ON TEXAS STANDARD TIME