Did You Know…Popeye the Sailor was a Texan?
Cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar may have been born in Illinois, but Popeye the Sailor,...
The Luckiest Man in Texas
If you asked me to name the luckiest man in Texas, I’d put my...
Texas Ushers the World into the Petroleum Age
On January 10, 1901 drillers struck oil just south of Beaumont, TX. The discovery at...
Juan de Padilla – Texas Martyr
It’s interesting to notice the things history remembers about someone who lived 500 years...
Don Juan de Onate Day?
Taking nothing from the Pilgrims, the first Thanksgiving in the New World took place...
Empresario Martín De León
Born in 1765 in Nuevo Santander (now the Mexican state of Tamaulipas), Martín De...
Empresario Lorenzo de Zavala
Lorenzo de Zavala was infamous to Spain, well-known as a citizen of Mexico, and...
Empresario Benjamin Rush Milam
Unlike several of the other Texas empresarios, Ben Milam did not come from a...
Empresarios Moses & Stephen F. Austin
Moses Austin and his son, Stephen F. Austin, were the first Texas empresarios...but despite...
The Texas Empresarios
The new Mexican government needed men they could trust to attract, acclimate, and administrate...