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Along the Brazos River in southeast Bosque County, Albert Redder’s patient digging uncovered the small skull of a juvenile in the earth of a rock shelter. Redder and his friend Frank Watt, avocational archeologists who lived near Waco, had been excavating the site on weekends since 1967. During the summer of 1970, they made the…

The stars at night are big and bright …” Given that opening, almost any schoolchild in the state knows what comes next: Enthusiastic, rhythmic clapping and the hearty chorus “… deep in the heart of Texas!” That lively tribute to the Lone Star State’s wailing coyotes, blooming sage and the wide prairie sky, a rowdy…

When I walked into the temporary home of the Nokona Athletic Goods Co.’s baseball glove factory in Nocona, Texas, my career as a baseball player had come full circle. Twenty-two years ago, I was named catcher of the newly formed Dodd City High School baseball team. One of my first orders of business was to…

But instead, Elmer Kelton saddled up for a legendary ride in the literary saddle.

Conservation practices fit Texas to a tee