Cherokee Elder Robert "Winter Owl" Vann discusses Native Americans and their relationship with Sam Houston.
Learn about the Indian population in North America in general, and specifically in Texas.
Mr. Vann discusses their population, clothing, diet, kinds of shelters they lived in, and many other interesting facts.
Click HERE to watch.
Learn more about the Sam Houston Project -> click HERE
The last segment 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.
You can listen to the audio here or go watch on TexanaTV
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| 13 minutes |
| Music by Barry McCabe |
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Find Elmer Kelton's books at your local bookstore or Amazon.com
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Will Howard is the former overseer of the Texas Room at the Houston Public Library.
Beside being a librarian, he's also a preacher and a teacher, but mostly he's a Texas bibliographer, of immense proportion.
These days, he produces Will’s Texana Monthly, an email newsletter meticulously cataloged and jam-packed with Texana, and the Texas Parlor, a weblog about various persons, books, weblogs, events and media of all sorts and anything else that smacks of Texas.
Not only has he a voice of rich timbre and resonance, he also has a deep passion and reverence for things of Texas.
If you don’t know about his work yet, listen to our chat and learn what you’ve been missing.
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| 20:00 minutes | |
| Music by Ken Tucker & James Swafford under Creative Commons License  | |
Subscribe to Will's Texana Monthly -> HERE |
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.
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| 18:23 minutes |
| Music by Barry McCabe |
| Find Elmer Kelton's books at your local bookstore or Amazon.com |
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.
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| 14:40 minutes |
| Music by Barry McCabe |
| Find Elmer Kelton's Books at your local bookstore or Amazon.com HERE |
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.
Ted Gray is in his 80’s now, but he stopped long enough to give me an interview and share his wisdom.
Ted Gray ...last of the real Texas cowboys.
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| 24:00 minutes |
| Music by Justin Gordon under Creative Commons License |
| Learn more about Ted Gray HERE |
(Originally published for The San Angelo Review. Worthy of you listeners of The Texana Review listeners)
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 the hotel is getting a little frayed around the edges.
Virginia Noelke is a Professor of History at Angelo State University and she’s been at the University for more than 35 years; she's seen a lot of changes.
But what’s interesting about Dr. Noelke is her fascination with the Cactus Hotel, built by none other than Conrad Hilton and opened in 1929, which turned out to be not such a good year for him, or the United States, for that matter.
Anyway, Dr. Noelke researched and wrote a book about the Cactus, titled A History of the Cactus Hotel and published in 1996.
Dr. Noelke agreed to talk with me about the Cactus and her book, which, sad to say, is no longer in print.
Listen to what she has to say…
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| 24:00 minutes |
| Music by Dave Howard under Creative Commons License Podshow Podsafe Music Network |
| Find out more about Dr. Virginia Noelke HERE |
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.
For any number of reasons, musical talent such as hers is oftentimes lost to those of us who would embrace it. Sometimes it’s because of the crushing competition in the world of music; sometimes it’s because of something personal.
Artists are sensitive and precise people and are mostly terrified of criticism. I suspect Ms. Trione is an artist.
Regardless, Ms. Trione has something special. I’ve heard her sing, and I’m here to tell you that it’s one of the richest voices I’ve heard in ages.
She also constantly messes around on the piano and produces melodies as handily as you or I might toast a slice of bread.
I was by her home in Houston over the holidays, heard a piece she’d been massaging for a day or two, and convinced her to play for my recorder. Perhaps she’ll agree to share her voice with us later.
Here’s “Released Tears of My Life,” by Laura Trione. If you have comments, please click on "Comments" below and share your thoughts.
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| 7:15 minutes |
| Music by Laura Trione |
Regarding the Buffalo Gap Historic Village and the McWhiney Foundation
David Gibson sent me an email complimenting me on the work I've been doing on The Texana Review.
I'm easy, so compliments catch my attention, especially as I evangelize New Media and The Texana Review.
Anyway, come to find out that David is interested in Texas history, too. His interest lies in the history surrounding Abilene, Texas and he's begun an effort at collecting oral histories for, of and about Abilene.
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.
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| 26:00 minutes |
| Music by Markovich under Creative Commons License Podshow Podsafe Music Network |
| Find out more about the McWhiney Foundation HERE |
| Find out more about David Gibson's Abilene history HERE |
| photography by David Gibson |
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