Mike Cox's Texas Magazine

The History of Every Old West Ghost Town

Remnants of the old silver mining town of Shafter in the Big Bend.

Oct 21 • 

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Postcard from Texas

What Texans did before Spotify

Oct 17 • 

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Postcard from Texas

You've got mail...

Oct 9 • 

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The October Barrel

That winter of 1905, seven-year-old Helen Viola Anderson did not grasp that the U.S.

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

Passing of the Texas Cowboy and the Big Ranches

By William R. Draper, first published in Overland Monthly Magazine, February 1905

Sep 28

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Texas' Daniel Boone

"Uncle Billy" Barton

Sep 19 • 

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On the Wings of a Dove:

A History of Texas Dove Hunting

Sep 5 • 

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August 2025

The Man Who Sired Pecos Bill

Belly up to the bar with Tex O'Riley

Aug 10 • 

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July 2025

The Great Guthrie Gunfight

Six-shooters in Four Sixes Country

Jul 27 • 

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Lawyer vs. Lawyer

A Duel Prevented -- On Wednesday evening last the preliminaries for a duel were entered into between two lawyers of our town, A.J.

Jul 27

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Deadly Drought-breaker: The 1921 Centex Flood

Downtown San Antonio following disastrous 1921 flood.

Jul 6 • 

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June 2025

Caroline Lockhart’s Ashes

A Western Love Story

Jun 11 • 

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