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This Week in Texas History

By Bartee Haile

Ask a Master Gardener

Dear Gardener: My Live Oaks are dropping leaves in early spring; tree looks sparse and sickly?

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Methodist Women sponsored another successful Potato Luncheon thanks to all of you. The St. Patrick’s Day theme was both fun and fitting for the menu.

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Rough rider Roosevelt returns to Texas

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“Was the late secretary of war removed in consequence of his attempt fraudulently to give to Gov. Houston the contract for the Indian rations?” an Ohio congressman asked on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Mar. 31, 1832.

World traveler brought ’em back alive

By Bartee Haile Frank Buck, the celebrated adventurer who brought exotic wildlife “back alive,” took his last breath not in a faraway jungle but in a Houston hospital bed on Mar. 25, 1950.

The last days of Sam Houston

Speaking in public for the last time on Mar. 18, 1863, Sam Houston told the citizens of the town that bore his name, “The welfare and glory of Texas will be the uppermost thought while the spark of life remains in this breast.”

Ask a Master Gardener: Effective, easy vegetables to grow

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Texans invade New Mexico for second time

Lone Star Confederates beat the daylights out of the Yankee rearguard in the New Mexico Territory on Feb. 21, 1862 and took a giant step toward winning the West for Richmond.

Texans invade New Mexico for second time

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