Col. Anthony Butler strutted like a peacock out of the White House on Aug. 7, 1829 with a seven-figure line of credit and secret orders to make the Mexicans an offer they could not refuse. Andrew Jackson regarded the Rio Grande realm as “lost” territory, a legitimate part of the Louisiana Purchase t...

E xhausted by three exciting weeks in the United States Senate, 86 year old Andrew Jackson Houston checked into a Washington, D.C. hospital on June 21, 1941. During the months prior to the April death of Morris Sheppard, Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel had his eye on the Senator’s job. Most Texans believed fla...

By Clint Younts A  while back, I informed all y’all that the folks in the U.S. Treasury were planning to put the face of someone besides Andrew Jackson on our 20-dollar bill. He being a slave owner over two centuries ago just didn’t set well with some folks, and with all this political correctness r...