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An East Coast society woman and a motherly rancher’s wife were the first two white women to have anything to do with ranching in the wild and formidable Palo Duro Canyon of Texas.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as the Victorian Era was being laid to rest, a few feminists began pushing for societal rights that had long been denied them. Many western women had already cast off strictures that seemed irrelevant to their lives.

The Bradley 3 Ranch, founded in 1955, covers more than 11,000 acres of Childress County. There’s a slight rise in the middle of the ranch where you can stand at night and see the lights of Childress 11 miles to the south, Memphis 19 miles west, Wellington 30 miles north and Hollis, Oklahoma, 30 miles…

Mosey on over to catch a glimpse
of Texas’ frontier past

One of our staff members told me that the difference between Cajun and Creole food boiled down to “brown and red, respectively” (i.e., roux- or tomato-based). Turns out, our readers have a lot more than that to say about Cajun and Creole cooking. Following are two readers’ thoughts on the subject, with a recipe from…