History

August/September 2016 Issue

9 Texas State Parks Kids Love

Picks from a writer who visited every state park in Texas in a single year.

Story by Dale Blasingame
March 2016 Issue

10 Texas State Parks That Bring History to Life

Discover battlegrounds, frontier forts and the town where Texas declared independence.

Story by Dale Blasingame
January/February 2016 Issue

Big Spring Is a Life Force of West Texas

The oasis has slaked the thirst of explorers and settlers.

Story by Eric L. Moreno
December 2015 Issue

Songs About Texas Rivers

Musical stories flow through Texas waterways.

Story by Russell Roe
April 2015 Issue

Photographer Jim Bones Sees Big Bend in a Different Light

Loss of sight caused the photographer to take a more impressionistic angle.

Story by Earl Nottingham
January/February 2015 Issue

Terry Hershey: Force of Nature

Terry Hershey's environmental activism changed Houston and sparked conservation in Texas.

Story by Lydia Saldaña
August/September 2014 Issue

Ranch of Pioneer Texas Family Became Part of Government Canyon

Kallisons started store in San Antonio, had ranch outside town.

Story by Nick Kotz
May 2014 Issue

Connie Hagar: First Lady of Texas Birders

Her 35 years of Rockport field notes reshaped what ornithologists knew about migration.

Story by Sheryl Smith-Rodgers
December 2013 Issue

TPWD Wildlife Artist Clemente Guzman Paints to Inspire Conservation

A childhood in migrant crop fields led to 25 years of stamp art and magazine covers.

Story by Louie Bond
May 2013 Issue

The Transformation of Aquarena Springs

How a beloved, decaying theme park became a world-class nature center.

Story by Lindsay C. Sansom
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