THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Snoopy The Goon says he’s tagged me and I have to tag seven others in this venerable blogospheric game. It’s a new one for me, but I’m honored to try. I’ll try not to make it too, too sentimental. Inject a little humor here and there, if possible. Here goes. And, except for No. 1 [...]

The wreck of French explorer La Salle’s ship, The Belle, more than three hundred years ago in Matagorda Bay is one of the compelling tales of Texas history that most schoolchildren here learn. These six to ten foot, dismounted bronze cannon, recovered in the remarkable 1995 discovery and subsequent preservation of the ship’s hull and [...]

Tatyana snapped this one on her recent trip to London. Is that a Tardis in the corner? Speaking of time machines, London and Paris might still have some remnant of an old Texas Embassy, considering the French, Brits, the Netherlands and Belgium recognized the Texas Republic in the 1830s-40s. Texas sent Dr. Ashbel Smith as chargé d’affaires to both England and France [...]

That’s what kids around the world are doing these days, thanks to the Handbook of Texas Online: "…a trailblazing resource about all things Texas." It’s also, just plain fun to read. And more is coming. Watch the video, pard.

I finished this one last night, sandwiched in between the first and second volumes of U.S. Grant’s memoirs, and it was well worth the buy and the read. It’s billed as the most comprehensive look at the massacre, and I’d go along with that, though I haven’t read many others. Especially interesting is the section [...]

I finished this one last night, sandwiched in between the first and second volumes of U.S. Grant’s memoirs, and it was well worth the buy and the read. It’s billed as the most comprehensive look at the massacre, and I’d go along with that, though I haven’t read many others. Especially interesting is the section [...]

One of the first flags of the Texas revolution (the bottom, Gonzales, one), with a grand warrior sentiment, the molon labe, that’s as old as dirt–well, the Spartans and ancient Greece, anyhow. Not unlike, as it happens, the modern gun owner’s response to gun control. Via Frankly Speaking 

All we lack here is a dead body, and who knows? One might turn up yet. So far we have a Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife indicted for burning down their suburban Houston house for financial reasons–and inadvertently torching a neighbor’s house in the process. Then the DA says there’s not enough evidence [...]

Is it better to die from a hunter’s bullet or an arrow? Either one would seem preferable to what actually happened to this nine-point buck northwest of Dalhart in the Texas Panhandle: "…the magnificent buck in the prime of life merely limps in painful increments from the feeder to the tall grass, the grass to [...]

Think of this list as the anti-Texas Monthly look at tourism in the Lone Star. Courtesy of Banjo Jones.