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During the last half of the 19th century, the arrival of the Mollie A. Bailey Show brought rare excitement to small towns.

Once ice was so scarce and precious it was thought of as an agricultural crop

The tin roof is a distant memory, but I can still hear music in the patter of rain

The historical landscape of West Texas is littered with colorful tales of remarkable deeds and doers, the rise of down-and-outers to mega fortune, local folks who have gone on to celebrity status in endeavors ranging from White House politics and movie stardom to evildoers and the lawmen who pursued them. By best account, however, there’s…

Sometimes, it’s the accidents of history that have the most far-reaching influence. When the fabled French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, landed 200 colonists at Matagorda Bay in early 1685, he was actually seeking the Mississippi River. Three years earlier, La Salle had become the first European to descend the big river to…