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Trumix.com listings available of The Texana Review - Podcasts Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Jim Blackburn Jim Blackburn is an environmental lawyer who lives in the Houston area. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to become an expert in Texas real estate If you're involved in real estate in the great state of Texas, especially if you're involved statewide, you may often find yourself looking for good economic information about the metro areas of the state to provide a foundation for making decisions that affect your livelihood as well as that of others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Howard: becoming a less well-kept secret on Texana He produces Will’s Texana Monthly, an email newsletter, and the Texas Parlor, a weblog about various and numerous Texana. If you don’t know about it yet, listen and learn what you’ve been missing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website T. Boone Pickens is back ...and he has a Plan T. Boone Pickens is one smart entrepreneur. Beyond that, he's one smart cookie. He has an energy campaign going and it sounds logical. Watch what he has to say in this segment... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trans-Texas Corridor: a chat with Dan Hatfield The Trans Texas Corridor is causing a growing stir among Texans these days, especially among landowners in the path of, or neighboring the path of, the proposed TTC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All they found was the camera... Seems like snakes are everywhere these days. This video has been making the rounds lately, and I'm here to tell you, it's an attention-grabber. As one of my buddies said in an email, "all they found was the camera." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colorado Valley Sunset - Redux I'm always trying to find new stuff that makes my offering to you more compelling. Here's a re-do of an earlier show using what has apparently become the darling of the photojournalists at the newspapers as they desperately try to catch up to the New Media. It's called SoundSlides, and it's not bad. As a matter of fact, I'm impressed, as is apparently, the print media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old Time Radio: Jimmy Stewart as "The Six Shooter" In the "Radio Days," Jimmy Stewart did a series for the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Radio Network called The Six Shooter ...and its pretty good, if you're one to like radio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trans-Texas Corridor: A Public-Private Effort While the ultimate impact of the building of the Trans-Texas Corridor will fall primarily upon the Texas landowner and taxpayer ...and eventually, as the trans-Texas traveler, HOW the whole process is overseen and financed is of importance, not only to Texans but also to North, Central and South America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An interview with David Wilkinson, co-author of "One Ranger" In my opinion, David Marion Wilkinson is one of the finest, intuitive writers Texas has to offer these days. I was introduced to David’s writing when I met Joaquin Jackson at a doowa in Houston, Texas about two years ago. He and David had written a book together … a book that has become a runaway bestseller – titled One Ranger. In my opinion, David Marion Wilkinson is one of the finest, intuitive writers Texas has to offer these days. I was introduced to David’s writing when I met ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter Two from Charles Chupp's "Frankly Speaking" My read of Chapter Two from Charles Chupp's Frankly Speaking Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chapter One from Charles Chupp's "Frankly Speaking" The roaring twenties were in session, even in rural De Leon, and the good times rolled until Black Friday, October 25th, 1929 — and the arrival of Charles Elvin a month later. He did not cause the Great Depression, nor did the Great Depression cause him. Times got tough but Hugh and Thel were blessed with yet another son, March 15th, 1933, as they moved from one rundown shelter to another, usually when rent was due. Benny Wayne was born December 18th, 1939, and Hugh and Thel ceased produc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Allen Price He started out specializing in Estate Planning and Probate law but has recently become heavily involved in wind energy issues. He's a rural landowner himself and has been a steady counsel for other landowners in negotiating leases with wind energy developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yikes! Snakes! If you don't think the warm weather has made our Texas rattlesnakes happy, have a look at this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elmer and Anni Kelton - a Love Story: Part Three A continuation of my interview with renowned western author, Elmer Kelton, and his wife, Anni, about how they met in Austria at the end of World War II and eventually married. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sharon Spinks talks about her book, "Law on the Last Frontier" "In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes in his working life as a Texas Ranger from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting brands, deterring smugglers of everything from cattle to candle wax, or giving horseback pursuit across unforgiving terrain, often into Mexico, Hill found himself immersed day to day in a world that straddled centuries as well as cultures." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Jack Hunt Jack Hunt has been president and CEO of the King Ranch since 1995 and has steadily worked to diversify the assets of the famous ranch. He also has strong views on wind energy especially as it impacts the environment along the Texas coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Kathleen McKenzie Owen Kathleen McKenzie Owen has been counseling rural land buyers and sellers since the mid-1980s and has enjoyed quite a bit of success in the process. She’s one of those who returns what she has been provided by her business efforts back to her business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old Time Radio: Hopalong Cassidy and the "Phantom Panther" Something about cowboys and the west caught my attention at a very early age. I suspect it was in my blood given that my great- great-grandfather, L.B. Harris, watched the Battle of San Jacinto from the bed of a wagon in 1836 at 14 years-old and went on to become a Texas Ranger and successful cattleman. I loved Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger, Sky King and the Cisco Kid on early TV. Later it was Bonanza, Wyatt Erp, High Noon and even later, The Shootist, starring one of my heroes, Joh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Karl Armstead Karl Armstead grew up in Arizona but after a stint in Agricultural Operations at the First National Bank of Midland, he began brokering and appraising rural property in west Texas in 1989. From the Fort Stockton area, he’s in the thick of wind energy development in west Texas. He holds the ARA designation awarded by American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Judon Fambrough Judon Fambrough is a senior lecturer and attorney-at-law with the Texas Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. For nearly 30 years he has informed landowners about their property rights and how to protect and utilize those rights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A chat with Don Griffis about his "Eagle Days" Mr. Griffis is a Vietnam veteran. He was a Marine who wore two hats – one as a Legal Officer, the other as an Infantry Officer. While many served in Vietnam, only a few have written about their experiences. Don Griffis is one of those. His book is titled “Eagle Days,” and he agreed to talk with me about it and a little about himself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Steven Thompson Mr. Thompson is one of the few attorneys in Texas, if not the nation, who have been involved in litigation in regard to wind energy and wind energy rights. His insights are interesting and thoughtful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with George Clift George Clift is a principal in Clift, Scott & Associates in Amarillo. He and his associates sell, appraise and auction property in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Mr. Clift is an Accredited Land Consultant through the Realtors Land Institute and is the immediate past president of the Texas Realtors Land Institute. His take on what’s happening in the Panhandle area with wind energy is informative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Tom Lee Mr. Lee travels extensively throughout central west Texas and has ample opportunity to chat with landowners about any number of rural land issues. As a result, he has a good finger on the pulse of how wind energy is and will affect the land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Tom Lee Mr. Lee travels extensively throughout central west Texas and has ample opportunity to chat with landowners about any number of rural land issues. As a result, he has a good finger on the pulse of how wind energy is and will affect the land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An Interview with Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson Jerry Patterson is the Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, the oldest state agency in Texas. He is an avid proponent of alternative energy sources for Texas which, of course, includes wind energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An Interview with Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson Jerry Patterson is the Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, the oldest state agency in Texas. He is an avid proponent of alternative energy sources for Texas which, of course, includes wind energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Terry Argotsinger Terry Argotsinger is from Iowa but during the summer of 2007, Mr. Argotsinger talked to a group of Gillespie County landowners and others interested in wind energy about his experiences with wind energy and land in his home state. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An Interview with Gene Rhodes Mr. Rhodes is now the principal in Gene Rhodes & Associates. His many years of appraisal practice has provided such a broad range of experience that his advice is highly sought after by even the most seasoned appraisers and real estate counselors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Range Fire: Near miss in Robert Lee, Texas On Monday, February 25th, I stepped out of my country studio around 4 o’clock in the afternoon for a break. I immediately smelled smoke and saw clouds of it out to the north near Robert Lee, ten miles away. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Rod Wetsel Rod Wetsel is a wind lawyer. He could be considered to be one of the pre-eminent wind lawyers in Texas, if not the United States. Born in Sweetwater, Texas as a third generation Texan to a ranching family, Mr. Wetsel schooled in Sweetwater before attending the University of Texas …where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree in history before going on to take a law degree from UT’s Law School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Rod Wetsel Rod Wetsel is a wind lawyer. He could be considered to be one of the pre-eminent wind lawyers in Texas, if not the United States. Born in Sweetwater, Texas as a third generation Texan to a ranching family, Mr. Wetsel schooled in Sweetwater before attending the University of Texas …where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree in history before going on to take a law degree from UT’s Law School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coming soon: Wind Energy's Impact On Land Value, and a bit more Eighteen short interviews from land professionals, attorneys, the Texas Land Commissioner and several landowners on wind energy and it's impact on land value and the State of Texas. VERY informative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elmer and Anni Kelton - a Love Story: Part Two A continuation of my interview with renowned western author, Elmer Kelton, and his wife, Anni, about how they met in Austria at the end of World War II and eventually married. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Gray - last of the real Texas cowboys Ted Gray showed up in the Alpine area with no money and a saddle on his shoulder around 1939. Since then he’s worked harder than most folks, used his wits and made himself wealthy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elmer and Anni Kelton - A Love Story: Part One Elmer Kelton was a young man when he was in Austria at the end of World War Two. He was barely 20 years old. He was in the infantry and was helping to clean up the mess Hitler and his henchmen had made across Europe in that sad part of the 20th century. Anni Lipp was a slight Austrian girl wandering down to the boat dock in her town of Ebensee to check the boat schedule for her parents, who wanted to cross the lake the next morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Virginia Noelke on the Cactus Hotel in San Angelo, Texas The Cactus Hotel is an icon in San Angelo and is a vestige of a bygone era in Texas history that warrants attention and recognition even though it’s getting a little frayed around the edges Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laura Trione - "Released Tears of My Life" Laura Trione is one of the best kept secrets in the Indie music world; probably because she’s wanted it that way …until now …maybe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Macabre - a bizarre history of a Texas hero. An interview with author Stephen L. Hardin Several years ago, Dr. Hardin wrote a book titled Texian Illiad, which has sold modestly but which has helped establish his reputation as a new Texas historian. He has a new book out now, titled Texian Macabre, which we visited about while we were together and which presents an incredible picture of an individual by the name of David James Jones, who is cast against a background of not only early Texas but also a budding burg called Houston Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An interview with Dr. Stephen Hardin and Dr. Don Frazier, Texas historians As our interests dovetailed, he arranged a meeting for me with Stephen Hardin and Don Frazier, who are two of several Texas historians promoting the Buffalo Gap Historic Village and the legacy of Grady McWhiney in the form of the McWhiney Foundation. We had a very interesting chat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An interview with best-selling author, Karleen Koen It was a serendipitous meeting. I was in the process of moving myself out of Houston to San Angelo when my friend, Larry Thomas, the 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate, insisted that I join him for coffee at Starbucks before I left. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Sooner" by Charles Chupp After several hiccups, bumps, potholes and a move halfway across Texas, I managed to link up with Charles Chupp last week in Brownwood. Met him at a place called Skillets and he bought me lunch as we talked about, well, everything. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website These Houstonians thought "green" way before it was hip Urbanization in Houston continues at a dazzling pace – more people, more buildings, more traffic, more dwellings, and more of everything that any modern-day, hyper-dynamic city is bound to experience. However, there were some, several decades ago, who had a vision; a vision that would provide a very important respite - a human respite - from the frenetic pace that the city of Houston was destined to experience in its rise to become one of the world’s most important urban areas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The West Texas Collection gaining more and more notice So, I called Mrs. Campbell and she graciously agreed to an interview and to give me the cook’s tour of the West Texas Collection which serves as an invaluable archive of historical photographs, books, documents and artifacts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Kelton, Editor - Livestock Weekly A couple of weeks ago, I sat down for a few minutes with Steve Kelton, editor of the Livestock Weekly …to find out about the Livestock Weekly and a little about Steve himself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nature greets me to San Angelo Yesterday, after working through several of my files, I stepped into the kitchen for a beverage. I glanced out the window and, lo and behold, there were a couple of whitetail bucks sizing each other up. I know the rutting season is just about to begin, so I watched as these two circled one another, then started sparring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Elmer Kelton, Part 5 To support his love of writing, Elmer Kelton worked as a newspaperman in San Angelo for years starting at the San Angelo Standard-Times, then Sheep & Goat Raiser Magazine for a while and finally at The Livestock Weekly for 22 years. Mr. Kelton talks about coming to San Angelo as a University of Texas graduate to go to work for the Standard-Times, how, as a young reporter, he learned how to use a flash on his reporter's camera, the Screw-worm eradication program of the Sixties, Billie Sol E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roasted Garlic Flan from Damon Doran (new & improved!) When the popularity of my father's recipes from his book, Purloined Recipes, became evident, I put out a call to friends and family for any recipes they thought you would enjoy. I've been pleasantly surprised with the response, so get out your index cards and get ready for a slew of delectable recipes from locals to world travelers! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas History Tidbit: Sturdiness, wit and luck made Cabeza de Vaca a legend They were wet, their clothing threadbare. They were weak from lack of food and a crisp, cold wind blew through them from the north. Pieces of their sailing vessels and what remained of their stores lay about them on the sand or bobbed in the Gulf of Mexico's surf. It was an inauspicious arrival, but it's considered to be the first time a European stood on Texas soil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Excerpts from the Prologue: "One Ranger" by Joaquin Jackson & David Wilkinson This is such a superbly written account of one man's experience as a Texas Ranger, it would be a shame not to put some voice to it. So I have, a little bit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website History 101 by Charles Chupp from "I Got No Reason To Lie" History 101 by Charles Chupp isn't the history I remember learning as a history major in college. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas History Tidbit: Stetson means cowboy hat After returning to Philadelphia around 1865 and founding the Stetson Hat Company, John Stetson came up with a unique marketing idea that changed the way westerners would look, particularly Texans. He made a hat called "The Boss of the Plains." To this day, "Stetson" conjures up the image of a cowboy with his hat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas History Tidbit: Sam Houston excelled despite meager education Sam Houston had little education. It's been guessed that he maybe had as much as six months of education at a local schoolhouse in Rockbridge County, Virginia by the time he was 15-years-old. History has shown us what Sam Houston was able to accomplish with his meager education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poet Laureate Larry Thomas profiled by KTRK Houston ABC's TV station KTRK reporter Katisha Cosley caught up with Larry Thomas in June and brought in this report on the 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate, Larry Thomas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Tidbit: The Packsaddle Mountain Fight Little did they know that a determined James P. Moss and seven other men - W.B. and Stephen Moss (his brothers), S.B. Harrington, Robert Brown, Eli Lloyd, Arch Martin and Pink Ayers - formed up a posse and set out after the Indians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Introduction to Bryan Woolley's "Texas Road Trip" Recently retired from the Dallas Morning News, Woolley has pulled together a collection of insightful and poignant stories which reflect his experiences and observations while roaming the great state of Texas on one assignment or another. It's titled Texas Road Trip, published by TCU Press. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wild Duck & Goose Casserole from "Purloined Recipes" Here's another recipe from my father's collection of "Purloined Recipes," gathered from many years of outdoors activity, mostly hunting and fishing, and ranging from Mexico to Alaska. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Tidbit: The Black Bean Episode What happened to the men who were executed as a result of The Black Bean Episode? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Shod in Style" by Charles Chupp I’m looking forward to my meeting Charles Chupp. I’ll be traveling within the next two weeks to De Leon to have a cup of coffee with him and talk about …about …uh …well, I don’t know what we’ll talk about. But I can just about bet that I’ll end up mostly listening, in spite of a penchant I have for uttering balderdash when drinking coffee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Elmer Kelton, Part 4 I've been reading Mr. Kelton's memoirs, Sandhills Boy, and find that his conversations with me reflect much of what he has already written in Sandhills Boy, I guess because I ask questions that make it easy for him to pull upon the memories, the rich descriptions and the way he wrote them in his book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Branard Street Demolition, Houston, Texas (Click once to activate, again to play. Double click on screen to enlarge) I was sleeping late that Saturday morning when I heard the big diesel fire up on the street outside my studio. Peeking through the windowblinds, I saw... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another recipe from "Purloined Recipes" (Podcast)"Purloined Recipes" is a carefully compiled compendium of recipes gathered by my father, Dr. Edward A. Blackburn, Jr., fromover many years of outdoors activity, mostly hunting and fishing, and ranging from Mexico to Alaska. To use his words: "Since some... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Tunnel Vision" by Charles Chupp As you know, if you've been here before, I like reading the writings of Charles Chupp. This is my fourth reading of his truly insightful stuff. The story is titled, "Tunnel Vision." It's from his book, "I Got No Reason To Lie." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Elmer Kelton - Part Three (Podcast)Elmer Kelton kept his promise and allowed me to visit him again in his San Angelo home for another interview. So, as his wife Annie sat quietly nearby, I set up a makeshift studio with portable recording equipment on Mr.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texans still don't know about west Texas wind energy It was time for another update on the happenings in wind energy in Texas and, as I’ve explained before, Greg Wortham is my main go-to guy for that kind of information. Greg is the Director of the West Texas Wind... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "More About John Henry" by Charles Chupp Charles Chupp and I have been getting to know one another by occasional telephone conversations, and email. And, although Charles doesn't use email himself, we manage to get around it. I actually own at Big Chief tablet and mechanical pencil;... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website J.C. Martin leading Texas State Historical Association to new levels J.C. Martin is the director of the Texas State Historical Association. He has a big job, historically speaking. The TSHA is an active repository of Texas history and provides a wealth of information for those interested in Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Showbiz" by Charles Chupp Charles Chupp grew up in a small Texas town, De Leon to be exact. And like anyone who spent any meaningful time in a small town, they know just how important the local movie house was on Saturady mornings. Here's a thoughtful memory from Charles Chupp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Elmer Kelton - Part One Elmer Kelton is a western author. More than that, he's a famous western author. And even better than that, he's a famous WEST TEXAS western author. Now, after 46 novels, who knows how many non-fiction writings, and accolades from peers and educators, Mr. Kelton, who's retired, is writing another book ...or two. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Elmer Kelton - Part Two Part Two of my interview with western author, Elmer Kelton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Whiskey's for drinkin' and water's for fightin!" says Dan Hatfield Texans use over 17 million acre feet of water each year, according to Dan, and he points out the looming fight between urban dwellers and rural folk over water is going to be a doozy, and cautions that rural landowners had best tuck their fiercely independent pride into their hip pocket and join together to protect what water they have. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate Larry Thomas, who was a guest a couple of times here at The Texana Review over the past year, was appointed Texas State Poet Laureate for 2008 just last month. Take a few moments of your leisure time and listen to our conversation about his appointment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bait Is the Secret - Charles Chupp While perusing the Texana section of the Half Price Books store over on Westheimer, I happened on a book titled The Nth Reader – Neglected Texas History by Charles Chupp. Glancing through its pages, I saw short tidbits of Texas history, and readily recognized that these were Charles Chupp’s take on any number of different Texas stories and tales. I wouldn't even let the cashier hold the book as I gladly paid the half price. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick Turner photographs people, places and things It was a rainy day in Houston when I caught up with photographer extraordinaire, Rick Turner. As a matter of fact, there were tornado warnings in the area. When we finally found a window between lines of thunderstorms, had an opportunity to find out about Rick Turner, his photography, and a few other things about the man and his passion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's there to like about Texas? A lot! One of my sponsors, Charles Lusk of Lusk Properties, Inc., brought this to my attention the other day knowing that I'd been on the road a lot lately. He also knows that what he likes about Texas and what I like about Texas parallel very closely. Anyway, how could anyone not like Gary Nunn and this slide show. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Wortham report on wind energy in Texas Greg Wortham monitors the heartbeat of things having to do with wind energy in Texas. As the fearless leader of the West Texas Wind Energy Consortium, Greg knows who’s who in the wind energy effort in Texas, and is especially aware of the ebb-and-flow of the politics being played not only in Texas, but also in other states, and Washington D.C. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website William Kellar bringing new slant to Houston History The Center for Public History at the University of Houston has been around for more than 20 years, founded by a group of people who felt a need to preserve the rich and often bodacious, if comparatively short, history that is Houston, Texas. In this podcast, I have a short conversation with the talented Dr. William Keller, who directs the Houston History Project at the University of Houston, edits the Houston History magazine and much more …listen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joaquin Jackson, Texas Ranger (retired), Part A Joaquin Jackson was 21 years old when he joined the Texas Department of Public Safety. He had to wait nine years before he could apply to become a Texas Ranger. He waited, biding his time, and became one in 1966. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joaquin Jackson, Texas Ranger (retired), Part A Joaquin Jackson was 21 years old when he joined the Texas Department of Public Safety. He had to wait nine years before he could apply to become a Texas Ranger. He waited, biding his time, and became one in 1966. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joaquin Jackson, Texas Ranger (retired), Part B Continuation of my interview with Ranger Joaquin Jackson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joaquin Jackson, Texas Ranger (retired), Part B Continuation of my interview with Ranger Joaquin Jackson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noted ex-Marshall dies with his boots on Ben Thompson was one of those lawless bad-good guys or good-bad guys that seemed to be so much a part of the late 19th century, southwestern America, especially Texas. His contemporaries included Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, James Butler Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Bat Masterson and others. There's no doubt that he was a tough hombre because he lived longer than most gunslingers of the period. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noted ex-Marshall dies with his boots on Ben Thompson was one of those lawless bad-good guys or good-bad guys that seemed to be so much a part of the late 19th century, southwestern America, especially Texas. His contemporaries included Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, James Butler Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Bat Masterson and others. There's no doubt that he was a tough hombre because he lived longer than most gunslingers of the period. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigration by the Numbers While most of us in Texas are accutely aware of the problems of illegal immigration and the challenges ahead for dealing with it, many, if not most of us are too busy to take the time to try to get our arms around the big picture. Although this piece is already six months old, it's a good way to get a perspective on the immigration issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Landmark Tower Implosion, Fort Worth, Texas (Video) When it's time for an old bulding to come down and the engineers get the "go-ahead," it's damned impressive how precise they can be. And, admittedly, since 9/11, buildings falling like this always sends a chill up your spine.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apollo 13 Revisited; from NASA (Vidcast - click once to activate, then Play to start)If you saw the Ron Howard film about the spine-tingling events surrounding the Apollo 13 mission in 1972 and liked it not only for its drama but also for its history,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flesh-Eating Bacteria Alive and Well in Texas (Podcast)Some people call it the flesh-eating bacteria. It's medical name is necrotizing fasciitis. Whatever you call it, it's bad stuff. It's not all that common, but you couldn't convince Ricky Oliver of that. He thinks it got him over the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flesh-Eating Bacteria Alive and Well in Texas (Podcast)Some people call it the flesh-eating bacteria. It's medical name is necrotizing fasciitis. Whatever you call it, it's bad stuff. It's not all that common, but you couldn't convince Ricky Oliver of that. He thinks it got him over the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1900 Hurricane Removes Galveston (Podcast)In 1900, Galveston was one of the state's most important centers of commerce and culture and was well-positioned to continue to lead Texas into the 20th century. September 8th was a Saturday and the morning broke with cloudy skies and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1900 Hurricane Removes Galveston (Podcast)In 1900, Galveston was one of the state's most important centers of commerce and culture and was well-positioned to continue to lead Texas into the 20th century. September 8th was a Saturday and the morning broke with cloudy skies and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1900 Hurricane Removes Galveston (Vidcast - click once to activate, then Play to start)In 1900, Galveston was one of the state's most important centers of commerce and culture and was well-positioned to continue to lead Texas into the 20th century. September 8th was a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Texas Heritage (Vidcast - click once to activate, then Play to start)I just love Texas! I was doing a small bit of research on historical video about Texas at Internet Archive when I stumbled on this piece by Robert Davis Productions from... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mr. Rattlesnake, Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Coyote (Podcast)When Mr. Rattlesnake decided to hunt one day a long, long time ago, he got himeself into a predicament. When Mr. Rabbit happened by, he helped Mr. Rattlesnake who had snake-like things in mind. But Mr. Coyote, wily and wise,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mr. Rattlesnake, Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Coyote (Podcast)When Mr. Rattlesnake decided to hunt one day a long, long time ago, he got himeself into a predicament. When Mr. Rabbit happened by, he helped Mr. Rattlesnake who had snake-like things in mind. But Mr. Coyote, wily and wise,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Bass and Shelton's Saddle (Podcast)Shelton Story was a young cowboy trying to get ahead in north Teaxs about the time the notorious Sam Bass was robbing banks, trains and stage coaches. He was delivering some beef to customers of a friend of his near... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Bass and Shelton's Saddle (Podcast)Shelton Story was a young cowboy trying to get ahead in north Teaxs about the time the notorious Sam Bass was robbing banks, trains and stage coaches. He was delivering somebeef to customers of a friend of his near... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thunderstorm-Camden,Texas, Summer 2005 (Podcast)I've been an outdoorsman all my life, but mostly in west Texas, where it's dry, and where cactus grows everywhere, and where scorpions and diamondback rattlesnakes are far from uncommon. However, I have close friends who have property in east... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mr. Stan Ray Talks About the Farm Credit Bank of Texas (Podcast)As Vice President of Marketing Public Relations, Stan Ray is more than qualified to give us a better understanding of the Farm Credit Banks and Associations - what they do, how they've evolved, how they're organized, who they serve and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mr. Stan Ray Talks About the Farm Credit Bank of Texas (Podcast)As Vice President of Marketing Public Relations, Stan Ray is more than qualified to give us a better understanding of the Farm Credit Banks and Associations - what they do, how they've evolved, how they're organized, who they serve and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Beyond History Website Looks At Texas Archeologically (Podcast)Texas Beyond History is a remarkable website that combines Texas history, archeology, anthropology and more. It's for thinkers, students and the curious. Dr. Steve Black and his colleagues have created a virtual museum online. It's very unique ... and very... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Beyond History Website Looks At Texas Archeologically (Podcast)Texas Beyond History is a remarkable website that combines Texas history, archeology, anthropology and more. It's for thinkers, students and the curious. Dr. Steve Black and his colleagues have created a virtual museum online. It's very unique ... and very... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sir W.T. Block, Jr. - Texas Historian (Podcast)W.T. Block, Jr. first popped up on my radar screen in mid-September while I was doing some online research on early medical practice in Texas. He had written about a couple of early physicians in Orange County and his article... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sir W.T. Block, Jr. - Texas Historian (Podcast)W.T. Block, Jr. first popped up on my radar screen in mid-September while I was doing some online research on early medical practice in Texas. He had written about a couple of early physicians in Orange County and his article... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Buffalo Bayou To Big Time (Redux) (Vidcast - click once to activate, then Play to start)This is my first attempt at a vidcast (video cast) of the very popular posting I made on September 18 (2006) about Hosuton's founders, the Allen brothers, the early days in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old Rip Lives On (Podcast) Have you ever heard of Old Rip? If you're a Texan, you may have ... then again, you may haven't. Old Rip's a famous Texan. He even took a trip to the White House to see the President of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old Rip Lives On (Podcast) Have you ever heard of Old Rip? If you're a Texan, you may have ... then again, you may haven't. Old Rip's a famous Texan. He even took a trip to the White House to see the President of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Texas Mountain Climber (Podcast)Edwin Allday is a Texan; a Texan by several generations. He's also a mountain climber. The two - Texan and mountain climber - are, to me, somewhat dichotomous. I was intrigued, though, that Ed Allday had had the time to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Texas Mountain Climber (Podcast)Edwin Allday is a Texan; a Texan by several generations. He's also a mountain climber. The two - Texan and mountain climber - are, to me, somewhat dichotomous. I was intrigued, though, that Ed Allday had had the time to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Buffalo Bayou To Big Time (Podcast)Houston is a LARGE city by anyone's estimate ... well, maybe not on a world wide basis, (although it DOES rank 94th in size, if you're curious) ... but it's certainly considered large in the United States. To grow as... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Buffalo Bayou To Big Time (Podcast)Houston is a LARGE city by anyone's estimate ... well, maybe not on a world wide basis, (although it DOES rank 94th in size, if you're curious) ... but it's certainly considered large in the United States. To grow as... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mile-Long Shot (Podcast)Not many people, including Texans, know about the Battle of Adobe Walls. Actually there were two battles at Adobe Walls. The first one included the famous Kit Carson; but the most famous was the second one. At that battle, there... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |