Discover Texas

Remembering John Coffee “Jack” Hays

Texas Ranger John Coffee “Jack” Hays was born in the community of Cedar Lick...

It’s hard to believe I wrote the original version of Discover Texas 25 years...

Need a great gift idea that almost everybody seems to like? These two collections...

These two collections of typically Texas Christmas stories really are exceptional…and you don’t have...

It’s interesting to notice the things history remembers about someone who lived 500 years...

Taking nothing from the Pilgrims, the first Thanksgiving in the New World took place...

Born in 1765 in Nuevo Santander (now the Mexican state of Tamaulipas), Martín De...

Lorenzo de Zavala was infamous to Spain, well-known as a citizen of Mexico, and...

Unlike several of the other Texas empresarios, Ben Milam did not come from a...

Moses Austin and his son, Stephen F. Austin, were the first Texas empresarios...but despite...