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It's yours for a song. We've got more information on Saturday’s impressive, music-abetted Drive-Through Mercado from the flavor-forward folks at Siete Family Foods, and that info is right here … Know ye, citizens, that Desert Door Sotol – that local company whose bottles are filled with spirits that are, we’ve heard, as pleasing to the palate as the packaging is to the eyes – is partnering with Twisted Alchemy, the cold-pressed juice company whose beverages are designed for mixology marvels, to present a Texas-inspired cocktail hour on Instagram ( Thu., Mar...

Mon dieu! Pigs on the loose may have changed Texas history FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Jean Peter Isidore Alphonse Dubois, the French charge d’affaires to the Republic of Texas, hoped to secure some 3 million acres of land for 8,000 French immigrants to Texas.Courtesy / Texas Historical CommissionShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Richard Bullock, owner of the Bullock House (pictured above) sparked an international incident when he beat the French ambassador?’s butler with a stick.Courtesy / Texas Historical CommissionShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6 A sculpted pig on the grounds of the French Legation co...

'Blonde blizzard' from Waco was queen of the clubs during Roaring '20s FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 The American actress and nightclub owner Texas Guinan. Paris. 29th May 1931.Imagno, Contributor / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of9 The American actress and nightclub owner Texas Guinan (in white coat) with her girls. Le Havre. 2nd June 1931.Imagno, Contributor / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 3of9 4of9 UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1920: Mary "Texas" Guinan, queen of New York's night life for nearly a decade during the Prohibition era, who is said to have made $700,000 in ten months in the 1920's selli...

Black Seminoles made their mark on Texas history FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 Blas Payne stands under the big West Texas sky where he spent his life cowboying. His grandfather won the Medal of Honor while serving as a "Buffalo Soldier" during the Indian wars.Sam C. Pierson, Jr. / Houston Chronicle staff file photoShow MoreShow Less 2of11 Cowboy Blas Payne and his dog outside his old fort home in Texas.Sam C. Pierson, Jr. / Houston Chronicle staff file photoShow MoreShow Less 3of11 4of11 True to his Black Seminole heritage, Blas Payne was a superb horseman and cowboy.Joe Holley / ContributorShow...

‘Our history begins with them’: Native Texan tribes a big part of Tejano history Tejano Moments: Native Texas Tribes Tags:  Several different tribes inhabited the area and others migrated here as the area was being developed. In the late 1600s as Spanish explorers set their sites on the new land north of Mexico, they first encountered tribes like the Caddo, Karankawa and Coahuiltecans. These tribes were settlers in the southeastern part of the state and known as the first people of Texas. “The Coahiltecans lived primarily from the Balcones fault south and along the Rio Bravo and San An...