The Bronc-busting, Cow-punching, Death-defying Legend of Boots O’Neal
He’s pushing ninety and still saddling up at the Four Sixes Ranch. Just don’t call him the last cowboy.
He’s pushing ninety and still saddling up at the Four Sixes Ranch. Just don’t call him the last cowboy.
Kids from nine to ninety will get a kick out of watching the Alamo City’s most mythical sea creatures swim with sharks and pose for selfies.
Plus: A lyrical, blistering new memoir and a four-dollar answer to dinner.
It may not have been safe, but it sure was fun.
A San Antonio man wonders how Sun City got its other nickname and learns about the nicknames of many other Texas cities.
Plus: swing by an Austin jazz festival, then listen to a record dedicated to a SpongeBob SquarePants character on your way home.
The Eagle, a gathering place for kinksters and activists for 25 years, closed in 2020. Now, the local leather community has an uncertain future.
Galveston was once the Ellis Island of the South. But Jewish arrivals had to navigate a society marked by racial and religious politics.
A decade after losing one of their own, the former residents of an Austin housing project reckon with their upbringing and the tragedy that changed them.
A New Braunfels man isn’t quite sure that he has a firm grasp on this fundamental aspect of Texas rural life.
Northeast Texas–born Byron Bennett was one of four key researchers on the team that created the lifesaving vaccine, but the spotlight shone only on Jonas Salk.
For fifteen years, my 2005 GMC Sierra has, through good times and bad weather, taken me to every corner of Texas. It might be time to say goodbye, but it won’t be easy.
As they emerge from the pandemic, some of the state’s least socially distanced venues are welcoming more couples than ever before. But it’s not all orgies.
Staghorn ferns aren’t easy to grow in Texas, but for nearly half a century, through storms and generations, my family has kept ours alive.
Plan your next road trip, work out, and binge-watch with our staff’s help.
Plus: a Motown dance party and an existential visit to West Texas.
A pair of Texas Monthly writers chronicle an emerging scene that would end up defining a city and changing American music forever.
As it turns out, even the best films and TV shows about the Lone Star State have their share of gaffes. (Yes, even ‘Lonesome Dove.’)
Plus, a woman finds unidentified ashes in a Goodwill urn, and a Houston driver leaves a barbecue grill unattended in his truck bed.
Philadelphia Eagles safety Anthony Harris flew to Austin to help lift the spirits of eleven-year-old Audrey Soape on a difficult day.
Small-town locker plants, lifelines for rural Texans for generations, have vanished from parts of the state. Christy Miller’s company is an exception.
The account pokes fun at the many misshapen depictions of the state, from tattoos and murals to pies and furniture.
Fighters in one of the state’s newest sumo clubs, in Dallas, want the sport to keep growing—without losing the traditions that define it.
Listen to the unforeseen collaboration between Shakey Graves and Trixie Mattel.
How a simple, two-chord song written by an Iowan became (clap clap clap clap) our unofficial state anthem.
‘Blood and Money’ has it all: new oil money, an equestrian heiress, a handsome plastic surgeon, River Oaks mansions, and gossip-worthy trials.
A transplant from California wades into an age-old culinary debate.
Archaeologists are uncovering new clues at a canyon where ancient Texans once hunted bison en masse.
Plus, a homeowner sets a Christmas light show to Lil Jon and fishers get rescued from a Lake Amistad sandbar.
A writer learns the hard way—the hardest way—that in Texas the answer is: not much.
Tiffany Kersten saw 726 species in 48 states, setting a new record for the mind-boggling achievement birders call a Big Year.
A Fort Worth woman wants to know why we honor the bluebonnet and the pecan tree, but not the strudel or the sopaipilla.
Cod this story be any stranger?
Texas Monthly remembers Chester Rosson, a longtime staffer and resident gentle soul.
‘The Power of the Dog,’ featuring Dallas-born Jesse Plemons, is well worth your time.
This is a reunion we all can shellebrate.
Kids in Dallas have been going to see him for more than thirty years, but now, because of the pandemic, he's coming to them. He tells us how it's going, which toys are popular, and what to leave Rudolph on Christmas Eve.
Twelve tamales steaming, eleven Longhorns losing . . . and thirty to fifty feral hogs.
Once eaten by woolly mammoths, and later used by Indigenous Texans and settlers for its sturdy wood, this strange plant has spread from Texas across the country.
When a grown-up son visits for the holiday, a mom takes what she can get.
Plus, a woman in Temple threw her soup at a restaurant employee.
An El Paso woman is looking for the finest example of Lone Star holiday musical jollity. But can there only be one?
The Upshaw family has preserved their history and traditions since the 1870s. Now, amid deaths and other departures, family members worry for their land’s legacy.
The only limit to where it can be played is your imagination.
Performing death-defying trapeze stunts in drag, he shocked Parisian audiences.
Members of the Chin ethnic group have found good jobs in the oil fields, and many are voting Republican.
As an impressive quantity of hot, steaming blood poured over my bare hands, I wondered how I, a vegetarian for most of my life, had ended up here.
The celebrated Fort Worth writer and entrepreneur spent most of his life in exile from his home state. But it never lost its grip on his imagination.
Texas experts share their best advice on emergency kits, weatherizing your home, connecting with neighbors, and more.
Students, many of whom go on to work in food science, train by spending as much time as possible in a meat locker studying beef carcasses.