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By Paul Carlson and Jack Becker Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker, a librarian at Texas Tech University.  He can be reached at Jack.Becker@ttu.edu. This week’s essay, by Becker and Paul Carlson, emeritus professor of history at Tech, reviews the evolution of American buffalo (bison) of the Great Plains.   Bison have been in North America longer than the humans who hunted them. As members of the Bovidae family of mammals, bison are distantly related to such animals as the Asian Water Buffalo and European Aurocks (or Wisents).   An ancient species o...

Eric D. Johnson's Fruit Bats have returned with plans for a new album titled The Pet Parade, which is set to arrive through Merge Records on...

Caprock Chronicles: The Lyric Theatre, first proper picture show of Lubbock Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Editor's Note: Jack Becker, editor of Caprock Chronicles, is a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about Lubbock’s early movie theaters is the second of a two-part series by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and historian. In Part One, the Band Hall and Orpheum Opera House were examined. Erving McElroy, operator of the rickety old 1909 Opera House theater, decided Lubbock needed a proper movie hous...

Joslyn Art Museum publishes new survey of European collection Taylor J. Acosta, Ph.D., is the curator of the European collection at Joslyn since January 2019. OMAHA, NEB .-Joslyn Art Museum announces a new catalogue dedicated to its renowned European collection. European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum is the first publication to reexamine the Museum’s permanent collection in over three decades, marking a significant milestone for the institution and drawing well-deserved attention to the artworks in its care. This new, richly illustrated volume presents 100 artworks from the...