
The Hills Have Allies
Just west of Austin, preservationists fight to hold onto an ecological rarity as a Dallas billionaire's development looms.
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Asher Elbein is a freelance journalist and fiction writer based in Austin.
Just west of Austin, preservationists fight to hold onto an ecological rarity as a Dallas billionaire's development looms.
As Texas landowners breed exotic animals like kudu and nilgai, they’re running a massive unplanned and unregulated natural experiment.
This East Texas tourist town calls itself “the most haunted town in Texas,” but its whitewashed ghost stories elide a complex racial history.
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Michael Smith and Clint King's entertaining and rambling book recounts years of cold-blooded adventuring.
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