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"Uvalde's Darkest Hour" by Craig Garnett is a harrowing account of the worst school shooting in Texas history, which took place at Robb Elementary in May 2022. The book explores the events leading up to the massacre, the day itself, and the unsatisfying aftermath. Garnett highlights the bravery of the children caught in the rampage and delves into warning signs exhibited by the shooter. He also emphasizes the ethical limits his team of reporters placed on their coverage, contrasting it with what he perceives as careless and mercenary reporting by nonlocal media. This book provides an essential perspective on the tragedy in Uvalde. [Extracted from the article]

The article delves into the aftermath of wildfires that ravaged the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, causing extensive damage to livestock, structures, and agricultural land. It also discusses the estimated financial losses, the impact on cattle producers, and available recovery assistance programs for those affected by the wildfires.

The article focuses on the aftermath of the devastating Texas wildfire, with Hemphill County AgriLife Extension Agent Andy Holloway describing the monumental loss and challenges faced by ranchers, including the loss of thousands of cattle and extensive damage to fencing. Topics discussed include the massive response from across the country, the need for financial assistance, and the potential long-term benefits to rangeland despite the slow recovery process.

Six years in the making, Austin author Stephen Harrigan's new book, Big Wonderful Thing, is a 900-page behemoth that seeks to explain the totality of the history of the state of Texas, from Cabeza de Vaca washing up on the shores of what is now called Galveston Island in 1528 to George W. Bush visiting Ground Zero in New York City in the days after the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Harrigan is a longtime contributor to Texas Monthly magazine, a screenwriter, an essayist, and a fiction writer, best known for his 600-page novel The Gates of the Alamo. Now that you have spent much of your life writing about Texas, as both a novelist and a historian, do the facts of Texas support the mythology of Texas?. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the planned publication by the University of Texas Press (UTPress) of author Steve Harrigan's "Big Wonderful Thing" on October 1, 2019. Topics discussed include comments from David Hamrick, director of UTPress, about the book; how Harrigan will promote the book; and the commitment of Barnes & Noble to take some 5,000 to 7,000 copies, with a similar number going to indie bookstores.

Reports on the pull-out of several Texas historical documents from an auction on June 18, 2004 over suspicions that the documents may have been stolen from the Texas State Library more than forty years ago. Items pulled out from the auction; Authentication of the materials by author W. Thomas Taylor; Factor that influence the theft of Texana documents in the mid-1960s.