God‘s Country
Abilene, Abilene, strangest town I‘ve ever seen. The post God‘s Country appeared first on Texas Monthly.
View ArticleThe Highland Park Woman
THE HIGHLAND PARK WOMAN is thirty-two or thirty-three. She says she honestly forgets sometimes. She’s not particularly afraid to tell her age (she’s not that old) but she seldom does. It’s not really...
View ArticleUpwardly Mogul
The tale of the man who made Dallas a film industry capital is no shaggy-dog story. The post Upwardly Mogul appeared first on Texas Monthly.
View ArticleDallas Is Better Than Houston
Big D is not called Big D for nothing. The post Dallas Is Better Than Houston appeared first on Texas Monthly.
View ArticleDallas Is Better Than Houston
Big D is not called Big D for nothing. The post Dallas Is Better Than Houston appeared first on Texas Monthly.
View ArticleThe Fifty Best Texas Books
One man’s favorite writings span a century and capture Texas in all its grimness and glory. The post The Fifty Best Texas Books appeared first on Texas Monthly.
View ArticleThe Fifty Best Texas Books
One man’s favorite writings span a century and capture Texas in all its grimness and glory. The post The Fifty Best Texas Books appeared first on Texas Monthly.
View ArticleOld Times
When newspaper entrepreneur William Dean Singleton bought the ailing Dallas Times Herald, people thought he was crazy. When he bought the Houston Post, they were sure of it. The post Old Times appeared...
View ArticleUpwardly Mogul [November 1976]
THREE YEARS AGO ANYBODY in the business could describe a Texas movie producer for you: loud talking, fast moving (white Eldorado), Frye boots, and a rodeo shirt to match his California girl friend’s;...
View ArticleOld Times [November 1987]
WHY IS IT YOU NEVER REMEMBER the good things about certain jobs, only the bad—and yet the sweetest times, the days of your life you think you’d rather live over, are those seasons when salaries were...
View ArticleJesus and Mead’s Fine Bread [May 1983]
WHEN UPON LIFE’S BILLOWS you are tempest tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost . . . Count your many blessings, ev’ry doubt will fly, And you will be singing as the days go by. —...
View ArticleThe Highland Park Woman [April 1976]
THE HIGHLAND PARK WOMAN is thirty-two or thirty-three. She says she honestly forgets sometimes. She’s not particularly afraid to tell her age (she’s not that old) but she seldom does. It’s not really...
View ArticleGod’s Country [November 1975]
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP there in the Thirties and Forties, Abilene was a one-industry town: God. God met the biggest payroll and He was the local real estate magnate. Besides owning the fifty church...
View ArticleDallas Is Better Than Houston [February 1978]
TRY TO REMEMBER, BILL, Hell and Houston both begin with a h. —letter from a 19th-century visitor I wish I’d said it first, but I can’t say it any better. It still begins with a h. Houston today is a...
View Article“A Bunch of Junk” [January 1986]
ON A MONDAY IN JUNE 1955, before the weekly council meeting at city hall, Dallas mayor R. L. “Uncle Bob” Thornton and members of the city council strolled across Commerce Street to view the...
View ArticleWhy Dallas? [December 1973]
A RIVER BEGAN IT. Sluggish in summer, scant. A red and awesome terror in a wet spring. Too much river . . . or not enough. Called Daycoa by some Indians, Arkikosa by others, in 1690 Alonso de Leon, a...
View ArticleThe Fifty Best Texas Books [August 1981]
THESE ARE MY CHOICES FOR the fifty best Texas books. I would like to emphasize that these are the best books about Texas. By that I mean Texas is their main subject or, in the case of fiction and...
View ArticleJesus and Mead’s Fine Bread
I sang gospel music for God, a bakery, and $6 a week. The post Jesus and Mead’s Fine Bread appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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