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The Devil’s Sinkhole, located a few miles northeast of Rocksprings along State Highway 377, is a National Natural Landmark and believed to be the largest known single-room cave in the state. It’s also home...
The U.S. Army established Fort Lancaster in 1855 near an important crossing of the Pecos River on the military road between San Antonio and El Paso. The garrison's principal work was in providing escorts for mail carriers, wagon trains, and...
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TEXAS PAST REDUX
Archeology in Texas received its first sustained attention in the 1930s thanks to funding from the Works Progress Administration. About 50 sites throughout the state were excavated, kickstarting efforts...
THE BUFFALO WARRIORS
Buffalo Soldiers, a name the Plains Indians gave to the African American cavalry regiments serving the frontier after the Civil War, represent the genesis of the long struggle to integrate both the U.S...
THE ANSWER MAY BE BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
The oil and gas industry has dominated the Texas economy and its landscape for over a century, beginning with the 1901 Spindletop near Beaumont, the first major gusher that signaled...
