The Hill Country in Texas is steeped in rich history, and you can still step back in time when you visit. The area boasts historic sites, music, museums, restaurants and hotels to lure you into the 19th century. The Hill Country encompasses 25 counties,
including the state capital of Austin, where our journey begins and ends. Along the way you’ll discover how the military, cowboys and German immigrants shaped this historic area.
Austin’s location was chosen as the capital of the Re

April 2014
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- Peter Iverson on Navajo History
- Nez Perce in Yellowstone
- Gunsmoke’s Gun for Hire
- Rough Drafts 4/14
- Davy Crockett’s “Ol’ Betsy” Found
- Battle of the Plaza
- A Saga of Bloody Kansas
- On the Trail of History
- CSI: Fort Union
- Profile in Leadership
- Texas Hill Country Trail: Cavalry, Cowboys and Germans
- Mules & Canyons, Oh My!
- On the Trail of Old Arizona
- Wyatt Earp’s Alaskan Adventure
- Buried Treasures
- April 2014 Events
- What happened to Tombstone Judge Wells Spicer?
- Rambles Through the Nebraska Panhandle
- Following North Dakota’s Sheyenne River
- Bozeman Trail
- Thomas Brent Smith
- Rediscovering the Mandan’s Heart of the World
- Race, Rodeo and the West
- Huber’s Café
- Saving Madam Jennie’s Place
- Living for the Dream in Your Heart
- Were Freemasons prevalent in the Old West?
- Thomas Eidson’s book, adapted as The Missing, features a torture scene where Apaches sew a man into an animal skin and put it over a fire. The animal skin shrinks and suffocates the man inside. Did Indians really do that?
- Who was the greatest of the bank and train robbers?
- Did Wyatt Earp ever drive or own a car?
- On the California Trail: Salt Lake City to Sacramento
- Timothy O’Sullivan
- JUSTIFIED: SEASON FOUR
- True Westerner of 2014
- The First Lincoln County War