Category: History
The Rise of a Bread-Baking Empire
Alphonse and the Pig War
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
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