Wise About Texas

In This Episode • The origins of polo in sixth-century B.C. Persia — and why it was war training, not sport • How the British found the game in India,...

Show Notes The 1842 Mexican invasions of Texas and their aftermath, including the Mier expedition and the Black Bean Incident. Sam Houston's use of pr...

Episode 152 — Introducing Wise About Golf Golf reached Texas before the automobile did — back when men who remembered San Jacinto were still walking a...

We think and talk a lot about the Republic of Texas (I hope). But what are we talking about? Most of the early settlement in Mexican Texas was east of...

250 years ago, the “American Experiment” began, with the result being the freest and most successful nation in the history of the world. The American ...

There is nothing prettier than a river flowing gently through the canyons of the Texas hill country. But traveling along the river can be treacherous....