Don’t Fence Me In
by Kirk Forrester / Posted on | No CommentsThe invention of barbed wire in 1874 marked the end of the open range in America’s West, and the 20th century ushered in settlers [...]
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The Oyster Is His World
by Richard Holland / Posted on | No CommentsFor almost 20 years, Houstonians have learned to depend on Robb Walsh’s articulate enthusiasm for food, particularly Texas food. We’re not talking fancy—Walsh writes [...]
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by Ryland Barton / Posted on | No CommentsThe Brazilian author Clarice Lispector is not well known in the United States, but in her native land she is considered part of a [...]
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by Tom Palaima / Posted on | No CommentsIn April, William H. Goetzmann, a Pulitzer-prize winning historian at The University of Texas at Austin, told the Austin American-Statesman that as a boy [...]
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by Emily DePrang / Posted on | No CommentsEarly this August, I took a Greyhound bus from Tucson to Houston and back. It was a 24-hour trip that impressed my middle-class family [...]
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