When Sam Houston's revolutionary soldiers won the Battle of San Jacinto and secured independence ...

How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWO...

When first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanc...

As a young teamster on a pack-mule train, Wilfred Dudley Smithers saw the Rio Grande's Big Bend f...

Every now and then a scholar appears in the field of history whose outpouring of works earns them...

Few people have played a more important role in the history of Texas than William Pitt Ballinger....

Named after a Mexican War general William Jenkins Worth, Fort Worth began as a military post in 1...