San Angelo’s Concho River Walk is designated one of five Great Public Spaces on the American Planning Association…
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A Hero One Day, A Victim Another Emanuel Stance lived a checkered life.
Sgt. Emanuel Stance was a hero, the first Buffalo Soldier to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. He led a patrol aga…
Don’t Mess with the Lady Gladys Sims won this custody battle.
Gladys Johnson Sims and ex-husband Ed Sims (photo) were in the middle of a Texas-sized custody battle over their two dau…
Britt Johnson One of the Old West’s greatest stories of courage, perseverance and family love was that of Britt Johnson’s quest to rescue his wife Mary and two daughters after their capture in 1864 by a war party of Comanche and Kiowa.
The drama began on October 13th, when a Kiowa and Comanche war party of several hundred swept down to where Elm Creek j…
Bigger Than the O.K. Corral A Texas shootout had a high victim count.
The Tascosa Gunfight of 1886 isn’t well-remembered today. It involved two factions—cowboys of the LS Ranch versus men i…
Cattle Call From the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle, hit the trail and discover Texas’s rich cowboy history.
Since moving to Texas over 15 years ago, I have traveled many miles on the trail of the state’s history and the rich her…
Bring ‘Em Back Alive? Texas State Policeman Jack Helm did justice his way.
Jack Helm is probably best known for being a victim of Texas’ Sutton-Taylor Feud (John Wesley Hardin was one of the gunm…
Discover Texas Western Heritage Celebrating the Frontier and the Horse Soldier in San Angelo. (Sponsored by San Angelo Convention & Visitors Bureau)
Experience the thundering hooves, pistol shots, jumping and slashing sabers of the old horse soldiers at the Regional Ca…
Texas’s Loyal Unionist John Dix fought for the Texian Army, yet not even family could make him become a Confederate.
John Dix was born to fight battles, taking his first breath on February 2, 1796. His minuteman father had fought in the …
An Empirical Tejano Review of Bradley Folsom's Arredondo.
Despite his negative reputation as an inhumane military leader of Texas and Mexico’s northern provinces, the infamous Do…