Tag: Texas

When officers arrested Policarpo Benegas in 1909, he did not simply object to being taken to jail. He tried to bring his six-month-old baby with…

Something was stealing the young pigs from a small chicken and hog ranch along the San Antonio River, and 14-year-old Edmund Dullnig was determined to…

Beneath the dust and legend of The Alamo, where history remembers cannon fire and last stands, another story has long been whispered—one not of battle…

On the ranches that stretch along the Rio Grande, weather is not small talk. It is food for cattle, grass for sheep, and the boundary…

On the lower Rio Grande in the early 20th century, Mexican and Mexican-American families kept close to traditions brought north long before the railroad and…

Set in the Texas Hill Country, Fredericksburg grew from a mid-1840s German settlement into a town where old customs met a changing frontier.  By the…

Roberto Molino, a poor farmer, discovered a $5 gold piece while digging mesquite roots on a land grant. He called his sons to help continue…

March 19, 1912 — In a remarkable display of bravery and quick thinking, an express messenger single-handedly foiled a daring robbery attempt on a Southern…

Once upon a time, cutting people up and putting the remains in sacks was a popular body disposal method. However, glancing through 21st century crime…

A ghoul is traditionally a living person who steals from the dead, and it was quite an occupation back in the early 1900s when incidents…