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On the Death of Deets
“I don’t want to start thinking about all the things we should have done for this man.” –Augustus McCrae, Lonesome Dove
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Blood Touching Blood: A Review
"When I finished reading Blood Touching Blood I wanted to start it over again." –Michael Sparkman
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(Almost) Everything You (Secretly) Wanted to Know About the Nine-Banded Armadillo
[The nine-banded armadillo] is a “true Texan” . . . tough, pioneering, adaptable, and it generously shares its habitation with others. –Larry L. Smith …
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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
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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…
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Clyde Barrow Writes a Letter to Henry Ford
My business hasn’t been strictly legal. –Clyde Barrow
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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
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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…
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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…
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Giant Love
Texas. Exhilarating, violent, charming, horrible, fascinating, shocking. Texas alive. A giant. –Edna Ferber
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The Immortal Alamo (1911)
The First Alamo Film
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Lone Star Characters: Lorenzo de Zavala
The Mexican Leader Who Became a Texian Leader
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