Archive - Y'allogy

April 2025

Texas Paintings: The Surrender of Santa Anna (1886)

You can do nothing about the quality of Huddle’s work, but that does not diminish its importance to Texas history. –An Unknown Art Critic

Apr 21 •

Texas Tales: Up the Chisholm Trail

I was used to the comforts of home, with plenty of good milk, butter and eggs, chicken, fruits and vegetables, and at night I had a nice soft feather…

Apr 17 •

Clyde Barrow Writes a Letter to Henry Ford

My business hasn’t been strictly legal. –Clyde Barrow

Apr 10 •

Legends of the Bluebonnet

The evanescence of petal and leaf mingling into an aroma that is at once delicate and as tonic as heifer’s breath. –J. Frank Dobie

Apr 3 •

March 2025

José de Urrea's Goliad Lament

It was painful to me . . . that so many brave men should thus be sacrificed, particularly the much esteemed and fearless [James W.] Fannin. –José de…

Mar 27 •

Cowboy Etiquette: The Cowboy Boot

A cowboy must . . . have a pair of fancy chapereros, or overalls, made out of calf skin, or stamped leather. Boots with high French heels are…

Mar 20 •

Texas. Exhilarating, violent, charming, horrible, fascinating, shocking. Texas alive. A giant. –Edna Ferber

Mar 13 •

The Immortal Alamo (1911)

The First Alamo Film

Mar 6 •

Lone Star Characters: Lorenzo de Zavala

The Mexican Leader Who Became a Texian Leader

Mar 2 •

February 2025

Every Man to His Duty

A proclamation from an impeached governor

Feb 27 •

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