Bejar Dispatch

This post gets more into the philosophy of living history and reenacting so buckle up and if I don’t lose you by the end then thanks for...

Last night while scrolling the interwebs I got a bit excited. Frontier images are always fun to find, not as uncommon as most people...

Some six miles farther on our march, I observed "Three-legged Willie" galloping up to General Houston dressed in buckskin and with a...

A knife! He's got a knife!!! Of course he has a knife. He's always has a knife. We all have knives. It's 1183 and we're barbarians. How...

Nineteenth century Texas was unquestionably shaped by horse and rider. Be it vaquero, cowboy, ranger, or your everyday character just...

There’s generally something to be said when a particular fashion remains in use over the span of many decades and across the greater part...

Boots being an unknown quantity, some wore shoes and some moccasins. Here a broad brimmed sombrero overshadowed the military cap at its...

(Written by Jonathan Woodward) "Brown Bess" “An outspoken, flinty-lipped, brazen faced jade, With a habit of looking men straight in the...

Texas and cattle, there are few words that have achieved such a close association with each other. But what are the origins behind this...

Well howdy there, I suppose this is the part of the program where I say what all this is even about. If you're like me, you like history,...