but it’s not a long one. It meanders for a mere 11 miles through the open prairie between Waxahachie and Palmer. There are plenty of crop fields and pastures to look at. A few low creeks trickle past.

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The Texas Capitol is famous for the sunset red granite that gives the building its pinkish exterior, but few know that stray capitol building blocks can still be found scattered along the old railway ...

Buses filled with elderly men lumbered down dusty Panhandle roads and rolled to a stop at the edge of a cornfield. Wearing suits and ties, some pinned with Italian military medals, the men stepped ...

When the New York rock band The Strokes announced they would play at El Paso’s Abraham Chavez Theatre in the fall of 2025, the steady bass beat of my heart quickened. While live music was not scarce ...

“As a filmmaker, you go through the world thinking of any situation and what kind of film you might make about it,” Richard Linklater once said about making Dazed and Confused. “What would my teen ...

Texas is so large and so vast that it’s home to not just one town known as the “Cowboy Capital of the World.” It has two of them, in fact. Now, before people start challenging each other to High ...

The 1979 movie Alien may have haunted a generation of moviegoers, but it inspired John “Danny” Olivas to become an astronaut. “I was in my early teens watching this movie, and there are two characters ...

In July of 1975, local Texas newspapers published blow-by-blow accounts of the Apollo-Soyuz Mission. There were headlines on the partnership drafted between space rivals the Soviet Union and the U.S., ...

For photographer Christ Chávez, the missions in and around El Paso are all about community. During his 50 years in the city, he’s watched the areas near the missions from El Paso to Ciudad Juárez ...

The college mascots of Texas inspire a certain level of fealty that’s hard to shake. Stadiums filled to capacity roar to life when they trot onto the field. We celebrate when new ones are chosen, and ...

From an echo-free chamber to a Zen sanctuary to Palo Duro Canyon State Park, one man’s pursuit of silence I have just set up camp on a rock ledge when all hell breaks loose. A violent windstorm ...