Category: History
When Texas Was Baseball’s Spring Kingdom

Texas cities hosted major league baseball teams — with homesteaders, cowboys and Indians in the crowd
Read MoreThe Plight of the Pleurocoelus

Whether or not Texas actually needs a state dinosaur is open to debate, but the Pleurocoelus was so designated by the Legislature in 1997
Read MoreBootleggers, Baseball & Barbecue: Brenham in the ‘20s

In 1920s Brenham, Ethnic Germans, the Ku Klux Klan and area minorities came together for a Reconciliation Barbecue, forging the way for an amicable future
Read MoreThe Queen of the King Ranch

Under the stewardship of Richard King’s widow, Henrietta, the King Ranch became perhaps the most famous ranch in the world
Read MoreThe Mollie Bailey Circus

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