Post dateJune 16, 2017 A City Plan in Colonial Texas Green DeWitt received permission from the Mexican government to establish a colony of 400...
Post dateJune 5, 2017 James Kerr James Kerr was a man of many talents. During his lifetime, he worked as...
Post dateMarch 29, 2017 Happy Birthday, Texas…Again! Texas first joined the United States as the 28th sovereign state in the Union...
Post dateMarch 3, 2017 Two Texas Birthdays March is Texas History Month! Did you know that both Sam Houston and the...
Post dateFebruary 27, 2017 Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief and Statesman On February 25, 1911 Quanah Parker died. Quanah was the son of Comanche Chief Peta...
Post dateFebruary 22, 2017 The Gun that Won the West On February 21, 1836 Samuel Colt was granted a U.S. patent for his “revolving...
Post dateFebruary 17, 2017 Cortez Sets Sail for Mexico Against the orders of the Governor of Cuba, Hernando Cortez set sail for Mexico...
Post dateJanuary 16, 2017 The Louisiana Purchase When Spain returned Louisiana to France in 1800, one of the stipulations of the...
Post dateJanuary 13, 2017 Learn to Spot the Seeds of Conflict In the last post, I issued a challenge to be on the lookout for...
Post dateNovember 18, 2016 Happy Birthday, Robert LaSalle and Baron de Bastrop Some people in Texas’ history (okay…maybe several of them) are more than a little...