Fort Phantom Hill (video presentation)
There is a haunting quality about the old Texas forts. Sentinels of the frontier, they...
Fathers of Texas (video) – Part 3
Last installment of A&E’s Wild West documentary on Moses and Stephen F. Austin, the...
Fathers of Texas (video) – Part 2
Singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers continues his narrative of Moses and Stephen F. Austin,...
Fathers of Texas (video) – Part 1
This week I’m featuring a very nice documentary I ran across recently. I’ll run...
Coronado (video)
Another important Texas explorer was Francisco Vazquez de Coronado. Coronado came to Texas before...
REAL Buried Treasure
There’s an estimated total of $340 million buried at some 229 sites across the state...
Texas Rock Art
We’re not talking about music here, but Native American Rock Art at sites such...
Echoes of History
In teaching, it is important to appeal to ALL the senses: sight, sound, smell,...
Fort Richardson – Next Best Thing to Being There!
If you’ve hung around the Discover Texas booth, website, program…or ME…you know that I...
“Hump” Day, Back in the Day
Did you know Texas used to have a Camel Corp? Yup. The US Army...