Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Catch up on Lone Star State news and plan some fall fun

"...Texas wine grapes are produced in the Texas High Plains AVA that spans some 8 million acres, the Texas..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Sweet sheep, Lonesome Dove peeks, and more to see around the state

"...to find the wide-spot in TX35 on the coastal plains southwest Bay City. A renovation in 1977 added modern..."

Aug. 1, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Youth Theatre, Late Movies, Brat Dances, and More Recommended Events

It's not scorching! Get out while you can!

"...was as stirring and moving as sunset on the plains celebrates its 35th anniversary across two nights on the..."

July 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Crosstalk: Plains Brings Out Hoyt Van Tanner, DIA on Día Centers Live Music Funds, and Black Pumas' Eric Burton Teases His "Own Work"

Austin music news headlines of the week

"...Plains, new project of Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson,..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Day Trips: “Peace Circle,” Grapevine

Statues depict meeting between Native Americans and Sam Houston

"...of the most prominent groups on the North Texas plains...."

July 1, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...Texas House. Here's Rip Ford, first a doctor and Indian fighter notifying parents that their sons had died fighting..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips: The Bonfire Shelter

Take a hike into an ancient time capsule

"...is one of only a few known places where Paleo-Indians stampeded an ancient species of bison off the cliff..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

No more pencils, no more books, just tons of fun for everyone

"...Robert E. Howard Days June 7-8, Cross Plains, www.howarddays.com..."

May 31, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Rider

Powerful docudrama of life on the range.

"...grown up in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and knows no other life. It’s the life..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood Brothers

This book does a superb job of capturing the essence of these two great Americans and their shared love of the American West

"...first bound together by shared mortal combat during the Plains Indian Wars (1860-1890). The two were already embedded in..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Bobby Bridger

Hell or High Water

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster shine in West Texas crime film

"...of a full-gale dust storm over the flat, dry plains of our parched movie summer. Hell or High Water..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3am: Joe Ely's Reverb: An Odyssey

The road goes on forever, and there's never a destination

"...his granddad Morgan who had arrived on the High Plains sixty years earlier and who had probably thought the..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Estate Sale Roundup: May 15-19

Sales may be few this week, but the pickings are hardly slim.

"...find five Navajo rugs; Navajo hand-beaded authentic medicine bags, plains bag, plateau bags; Navajo leather and seed bead pipe..."

May 15, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Day Trips

Outnumbered buffalo hunters held off Plains Indians at this battle site

"...was the site of a pivotal battle between the Plains Indians and encroaching buffalo hunters...."

Dec. 21, 2012 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Mrs. Santa's Book Bag

"...culinary bibles of national cuisines, including Spanish, Italian, French, Indian, Greek, and now its newest addition, The Lebanese Kitchen...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Food Feature by Mick Vann

In the Kingdom of Men

Maps to the Middle East: 'In the Kingdom of Men'

"...we are quickly transported from the dusty, red clay plains to the seemingly infinite desert sandscapes of Saudi Arabia,..."

June 15, 2012 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

For the Comanche history novice, this is an entertaining and easy-to-read starting point, but not a very intellectually strenuous one

"...Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American Historyby S.C. Gwynne Scribner, 384 pp.,..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Books Review by Ed Baker

Day Trips

The Brazos Indian Reservation began as an effort to provide native Texans with a homeland, yet ended in tragedy

"...The Brazos Indian Reservation began as an effort to provide native Texans..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Journey Through the Past

Down the digital rabbit hole of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1

"...in Archives' hard-shell box, which could house Al Swearengen's Indian head on Deadwood, the diary/credits gather-all reprints correspondence NY..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

Fort Richardson State Park outside of Jacksboro mixes the story of the Old West with outdoor recreation for the modern family

"...little the command could do to stop the American Indian raiding parties from sneaking across the Red River and..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Fort Leaton State Historic Site stands as a stark reminder of the rugged life of the pioneers on the Texas frontier

"...The fertile plains at the junction of the Rio Conchos (from the..."

June 20, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Catherine Lee

Back in her home state full-time, the noted artist shares her work and what she's learned in 30 years of making art

"...Catherine Lee grew up in the Panhandle plains of Texas and spent the last 30 years in..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Rachel Cook

Letters @ 3AM

Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"

"...and also a "Ghandi" market, serving families from the Indian subcontinent. Lots of good food – Texan and Tex-Mex,..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Hard Habit to Break

Moonlight Towers' DIY road rage: This is you, Austin

"...Valley, Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains, the Rockies, and the vast plains of Kansas pass by in utter silence. Like other..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

My Gang Don't Bow Down

Big Chief Kevin Goodman sew, sew, sews a new history here in Austin

"...a half-moon. "You use really long ones here," he explains, holding them to the top of the structure. In..."

May 5, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Day Trips

Quanah Parker walked the stony road from nomadic Plains Indian to successful cattle rancher

"...Quanah Parker walked the stony road from nomadic Plains Indian to successful cattle rancher. The era of the..."

May 13, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Outdoor Art Museum reproduces some of the most famous works of the art world on the walls of the little town of Eastland

"...that area residents would find a wide assortment of Indian artifacts. The prairies and wood thickets along the Brazos..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Saving Darma

A UT linguist travels to northern India in a quest to preserve the local language of the Darma Valley

"...started once again for the Darma people of the Indian Himalayas. All along the winding mountain road that runs..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Feature by Dan Oko

Day Trips

Against the odds, Palo Duro Canyon became a major jewel in the state parks system.

"...camp while they hunted the buffalo that wandered the plains. The Indians' supremacy of the Panhandle came to an..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Book Review

"As with any good crime thriller / mystery, the plot -- as chilling as it is -- serves as a subterfuge to explore the darker realms of the hero's psyche," writes Russell Cobb of Stephen Graham Jones' All the Beautiful Sinners, "as well as themes of collective memory and identity." Jones will be at BookPeople on Tuesday, May 6, at 7pm.

"...gone biblical on a large swath of the Southern Plains, murdering pairs of Native American children as tornadoes sweep..."

May 2, 2003 Books Feature by Russell Cobb

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