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Meander down the Brazos for a date with history

I took an informal poll of several mothers with young children, asking what their perfect Mother’s Day breakfast in bed would be. Among the wistful replies for fresh-squeezed orange juice and French toast or an omelet and fruit was this common refrain: “Forget breakfast … just let me sleep.” As the mother of a 2-year-old,…

Imagine Austin, a dusty frontier town on the north bank of the Colorado River in 1876, when the state fathers decided to erect a government building modeled on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. At completion, it would rise 15 feet taller than the original. The granite superstructure would dwarf the one- and two-story buildings…

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…

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.