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When a small town lawyer from Cleburne, William H. Bledsoe, followed new opportunities to the South Plains in 1908, nothing in his background indicated he would become one of the South Plains’ leadin…

Just outside the gaping hole in the Caprock Escarpment, great horned owls swoop and screech, hoping to dine on a few of the half-million Mexican free-tailed bats who call the place home.

For almost a century, artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico, were accepted by scientists as evidence the earliest American was Clovis Man, who once thrived on the Llano Estacado.

The Great Depression had a devastating impact on the nation.

As we saw in part one of this series, the United States and Canada agreed to build a military highway from Fairbanks, Alaska to Dawson Creek, British Columbia in March 1942 in response to potential J…

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States and Canada feared that the Japanese might invade Alaska or the Aleutian Islands, which jut westward in the no…

In 1890, Santa visited the children of Old North Lubbock at the community party held in a dirt-floored blacksmith shop. From its early days, the settlers in Lubbock celebrated Christmas.

Bobby Keys, the legendary rock saxophonist from the small Texas town of Slaton, was perhaps best known for his hard-partying lifestyle.

“Thanksgiving Day, 1893, dawned clear and bright after a night that was cold enough to freeze a quarter inch of ice over the water bucket on the back bench.”

In the fall of 1939, the growing city of Lubbock had a population of 31,853.