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1

My ‘Gunsmoke’ Summer

2

Why “Redneck Dave” didn’t trust banks

3

Remembering the bass boat heroes (Re-run)

4

Texas Phonetic Alphabet REVISTED

5

The Texas phonetic alphabet

6

Tim Brown’s Nolan

7

Rebroadcast: The craziest race you’ve never heard of happened on Padre Island

8

How a man named Connie forged a global chain that started in Texas

9

The Angel of Goliad

10

How the Texas Hill Country inspired NYC’s Central Park

11

Wealth on Your Shelf

12

‘He didn’t take on an iconic role, he made the role iconic’: W.F. Strong on Robert Duvall

13

Sandra Cisneros, a Texas literary rock star

14

LBJ’s Humor (re-run)

15

Traces of Texas – A priceless gift for all Texans

16

How Three Gifts To UT Gave All Texans A Fourth: The Gift Of The Stars (re-run)

17

Mix up your holiday entertainment with a history of Texas’ lawless influence on Old West

18

George Foreman’s resilience: A two-time rags-to-riches story

19

The two men who rescued Shiner Beer

20

They called her ‘Babe’

21

Belle and Lea

22

Cowboy Time

23

The sky welcomes you home

24

The hat that made the cowboy

25

Creative smuggling when Texas was a republic

26

The Comanche Moon

27

New York aids Texas Revolution

28

Whistling while you work

29

The 100th meridian

30

John Steinbeck (and Charley) on Texas

31

Do you have a favorite W.F. Strong story? Here are our top 10

32

Fronters and backers

33

A tale of a stolen town

34

How some donated land became a bounty for a small town’s students

35

Could Napoleon have ruled over Texas?

36

A second siege of the Alamo

37

My brush with fate or serendipity

38

Some of the best Texans have been Californians – on film

39

Frito pie is a Texas original

40

The craziest race you’ve never heard of happened on Padre Island

41

An AI Experiment

42

Counting Cattle With the Fathers

43

The Other Hill Country

44

The mystery of the Texas box

45

Bonnie and Clyde: Star-synced lovers

46

New Year’s Eve on Houston Street

47

The Gift of the Tidelands

48

La Pitada

49

Found in Translation

50

On Censorship

51

The Legend of La Llorona

52

‘The Killers of the Flower Moon’ is an Oklahoma story with Texas ties

53

Texas is God’s Country

54

How the railroad saved Fort Worth

55

The Historical Accuracy of Lonesome Dove

56

Texas Spelling Bee

57

The Second Sacking of San Antonio

58

The 50th anniversary of ‘The Time It Never Rained’

59

Farmer Logic

60

Things Redneck Dave said to me on the drive across Texas

61

What a Handshake is Worth

62

Sancho

63

It’s My Turn

64

Quinta Mazatlan

65

My Valentine

66

Tom Hoskins and his Thousand Points of Light

67

We Might Oughtta Praise Texas Grammar

68

The Port Mansfield Cut and the treasure discovered there

69

Jesse H. Jones was a model philanthropist

70

‘Three red marbles’ is a story fit for Thanksgiving

71

La Llorona

72

Yonderings

73

How Texas Saved the Buffalo

74

Wright Bacon: A Texas Original

75

Remembering Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Texas

76

Flying to school on my Western Flyer

77

Falcon Lake

78

Remembering the Uvalde 21

79

What happened to Toadsuck, Texas?

80

The Pessimistic Farmer

81

How The Railroad Help Built Texas

82

Wordle For Texas

83

LBJ’s Humor

84

A Little Test Of Texas’ Official Symbols

85

How Ranchers Used Barbed Wire To Make Phone Calls

86

Texas Ice Fishing

87

The Most Generous Texan Of Yore?

88

Texas Navigator App

89

Peregrine Falcons

90

The Young Lieutenant Who Crossed the Wild Horse Desert

91

Texas And The Art Of Understatement

92

Words That Migrated

93

The Texas Olympics

94

Miles And Miles Of Texas

95

Long Before Elon Musk, A Different Man Had A Plan To Develop Boca Chica

96

There’s Something About A Person Named Tex

97

Watermelon Season

98

The Story of C.H. Guenther

99

Don Pedrito: Healer of Los Olmos

100

Larry McMurtry and the Lonesome Dove Quadrilogy

101

High Security and Low Security Texas

102

What’s In A Name? For These Famous Texans, Everything.

103

Artist Tom Lea’s ‘Sarah In The Summertime’

104

Lyndon Johnson’s Gifts To Texas

105

In Praise Of Vultures

106

A Letter from Texas

107

The Texas Connection To Colorado’s Royal Gorge Bridge

108

The Queen’s Royal Welcome to Texas

109

Norfleet: The Texas Rancher Who Kept On Coming

110

Texas: A State That Loves Its Flag

111

The Tragic Story of Dora Hand

112

El Llano Estacado

113

How Madame Curie’s Philanthropy Continues To Inspire

114

Dichos

115

Jefferson Davis Highway: The Persistence Of A Confederate Memorial

116

How Texas Became A Desert

117

El Rio Bravo

118

The Hero Of Cinco De Mayo Was A Texan

119

Texas Cowboy Moves to Montana

120

Things ‘Redneck Dave’ Said to Me on the Drive Across Texas

121

The Texas Polio Epidemic

122

Jim Bowie: Timeless Influencer

123

The Texas Coral Snake – Beautiful and Occasionally Dangerous

124

Love Letter to Scarlett

125

The Impeachment and Conviction of Texas Governor Jim Ferguson

126

Three Texas Myths That Won’t Die

127

The Republic of Texas is No More

128

The Man Who Led The Battle Against Yellow Fever

129

The Distance In Smoots

130

101 Essential Texas Books

131

Sam Houston And Me

132

10-and-a-Half Frightening Facts About the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

133

Wit And Wisdom From T. Boone Pickens

134

What Elvis Presley Owed West Texas

135

How Ingersoll, Texas Lost Its Name

136

Remembering The Summers Of My Youth

137

Gunsmoke & Texas

138

The Texas Crutch

139

Teddy Roosevelt’s Texas Campaign

140

Remembering ‘Beneficent Genius’ Bill Wittliff

141

On Mother’s Day: Remembering Nonnie

142

The Lady In Blue

143

What Siri Can’t Tell You

144

What’s In A Name – The Rio Grande Valley

145

The Mystery Of The Osage Murders

146

The Luckiest Letter in Texas

147

Picturing Texas

148

Ranch Words In Urban Life

149

D.H. Snyder – Cattleman And Philanthropist

150

Time-Traveling With Frederick Law Olmsted

151

How Moms Use The Legend Of La Llorona To Keep Their Kids In Line

152

Tower Climbers

153

Texans Have A Funny Relationship With The Letter ‘R’

154

Out-Texas Me This!

155

Defenders Of The Alamo

156

Texas As A Unit Of Measure

157

The Armadillo’s Texas Roots Reach Back To Ancient Times

158

Pink Cadillacs And Lucky 13: How Mary Kay Ash Built A Billion-Dollar Business

159

What Anthony Bourdain Knew About Mexico

160

Where Have All The Horny Toads Gone?

161

In 15 Minutes, Barbara Jordan Built A Legacy

162

Ten Songs About Lovin’ The Lone Star State

163

Texas Might Have Been Smaller

164

Endangered Words

165

Samuel Walker: The Real Walker, Texas Ranger

166

Windmills: A Memory of Spring

167

Jack Johnson: The Galveston Giant

168

My Valentine

169

Plumbing The Depths of Jacob’s Well

170

A Handy Guide To The Most Texas-Loving Pages On Facebook

171

On The 20th Century, And The 22nd

172

4 Gifts For Texas

173

Judge Roy Bean

174

Jules Verne, Texas, and the Moon

175

Honorary Texans

176

Missing Whataburger

177

Texas Contractions

178

Uncle Dale’s Greatest Gift

179

Bass Boat Heroes

180

Texas: The Name Heard ‘Round The World

181

Cabeza de Vaca: The First Texas Tourist

182

Top of the Chart Songs about Texas Towns

183

Show ‘Em Your Badge

184

Texas Land Rush

185

McMurtry And Twain

186

Lingo for Gringos: Ten Spanish Words All Anglos Should Know

187

Three Texas Pride Stories

188

Quanah Parker: A Mother’s Day Story

189

The One Musician To Get A Ticker Tape Parade Was A Texan

190

This Is The Scariest Bridge In Texas

191

Might Oughta Talk About Texas Grammar

192

Texas Weather is Never Normal

193

Anglo Settlers Were Texas’ Original Undocumented Immigrants

194

The How, Where and Why of Valentine, Texas

195

The Weird Connection Between Tony Romo and Tony Roma’s

196

What It Means to Be a Texas Gentleman

197

Here’s Your Texas-Themed Reading List for 2017

198

The Story Behind Texas’ Favorite Butter

199

Jack Sorenson’s Paintings Capture the Simple Joy of Christmas

200

Trying to Talk Texan? Let Your Words Lean Into Each Other

201

The Queen of King Ranch

202

Dr Pepper: The Story of Texas’ Favorite Soft Drink

203

Sure, Texas Is Big – But It Used to Be Even Bigger

204

The Real Texan Who Inspired Captain Woodrow F. Call

205

Homesick for Texas: Songs & Tributes to the Lone Star State

206

The Texan Origins of the Word Maverick

207

Texas Demonyms: Dallasites, Victorians, and Everything In-Between

208

The Life of Tom Landry, the Man in the Hat

209

Words, They are a Changin’

210

Oscar Wilde’s Tour of Texas Gives Us Life

211

‘You May All Go to Hell’ And 9 More Great Texas Quotes

212

The Mysterious Texan and the Ranchers’ Convention

213

Three Secrets of Life From My 101-Year-Old Mother

214

The Airline That Started With A Cocktail Napkin

215

Listen: 12 More Words Texans Mispronounce

216

In the Land of Pickups, Texas is King

217

I’m Mad, Too, Eddie!

218

Think There’s No Poetry In Texas? Think Again

219

Before We Had Social Media, We Had Dairy Queen

220

The Time It Never Rained

221

The Texas Rancher and the New York Banker

222

The Story of James Dean and the Shamrock Hotel

223

Here’s An Apple Pie Recipe For Any Texan Holiday

224

What You Might Not Know About the Texas Constitution

225

One Texan In The Global Village

226

6 Reasons Texas Is Better Than Alaska

227

The Top 12 Quotes From ‘Lonesome Dove’

228

When the Young Lieutenant Met the Wild Mustangs