hile the Alamo heroes fought to the last man on March 6, 1836, a cowardly former comrade found shelter in an empty cabin on the Guadalupe River. Until his own dying day, Louis Rose would stay on the run from a guilty conscience. During a lull in the Mexican bombardment on March 3, Col. Buck Travis b...

cting like the Paul Revere of the Texas Panhandle, Pat Garrett rode from camp to camp on Feb. 22, 1877 warning fellow buffalo hunters, “The Comanches are coming!   The Comanches are coming!” That, of course, was not altogether true.   The Indians had been in the vicinity for weeks but posed no real ...

masked mob dragged five suspected cattle thieves kicking and screaming from the Mason County jail on Feb. 18, 1875, lynched three of the terrified outlaws and touched off a nasty feud forever known as the Hoodoo War. In the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War, Texans often took the law into their own...

im Krebs scored a Southwest Conference record 50 points on Feb. 8, 1956 to power the SMU Mustangs past the Texas Longhorns 109-96. Elmore “Doc” Hayes was hired in 1947 to breathe new life into the listless basketball program at Southern Methodist University.   The pitiful Ponies had won a grand tota...

he news out of Brazil on Jan. 30, 1977 was that a 19-year fugitive from Lone Star justice, had been arrested for financial misdeeds in his extradition-proof sanctuary. Long before the savings and loans scandal of the 1980s, there was BenJack Cage, scam artist supreme.   The six-foot four-inch former...

n Jan. 13, 1903, the day he began his third term in the Texas House of Representatives, Pat Neff was elected Speaker making him at age 31 the youngest in the history of the Lone Star legislature. Two years later, the rising star caught everybody by surprise with the announcement that he would not se...

dmiral James Otto Richardson met with Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Jan. 5, 1941 and for the second time in three months tried to convince the President that the Pacific Fleet was a sitting duck at Pearl Harbor. Joe Richardson was born in Paris in 1879, and that northeast Texas town was where he grew...

illy the Kid rode into Fort Sumner, New Mexico with five fellow fugitives on the night of Dec. 19, 1880, but sensing danger in the darkness, the most wanted outlaw in the Southwest pulled up leaving a young Texan in the lead. If his parents had not perished in a smallpox epidemic soon after emigrati...

ose Maria Jesus Carbajal waited until the guards were fast asleep before calmly walking out of the Matamoros jail on the night of Nov. 28, 1835. The native Texan reached Goliad in time to sign the first statement of independent intent in the Lone Star rebellion. The Carbajal family tree was full of ...

lobe-trotting newspaper reporter Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker spoke at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on Nov. 20, 1941, but as usual his pro-war message fell on deaf and hostile ears. For years the award-winning journalist had implored the public to take a hard second look at Adolph Hitler a...