The vast majority of the Lone Star State is privately held, the beauty of its landscape and the diversity of...
Anglo-Texans and Native Americans, like Israelis and Palestinians, have a troubled history. Between 1840 and 1880, settlers and Indians clashed...
Take a long, tall sixth-generation German-Texan farmer named Bradley Ottmers, who spends all his waking hours in a cowboy hat....
Native Americans had never seen a man like John O. Meusebach. He was a giant (he stood 6-feet, 2-inches) with...
Imagine taking your morning coffee on the private deck of a villa while you watch a herd, or a tower,...
A U.S. Army ambulance pulled by four mules skidded to a stop in the mud bringing Herman Lehmann home to...
Way back in 1971, near Fort Davis, Gretchen Glasscock planted a vineyard on the southern slope of Blue Mountain. It...
I came here with $3,000 in my pocket…and my horse,” said Rozanna Afton Sasko, whose spunk tells you she’s not...
The Germans who settled Hill Country towns were renowned for a welcoming nature, which frequently involved sharing a beer. Today,...
Texas Tech University in Fredericksburg’s full-on micro winery allows students to experience the entire winemaking process from learning to grow...
“What we needed was a new kind of pioneer, not the sort which cut down the forests and burned off...
In 1999, Robb Kendrick and Jeannie Ralston opened Texas’s first lavender farm in Blanco. On a trip to Provence, France,...