Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 11:49am
By Susan Shore, Texas Heritage Trails Program Specialist
There’s something special about the land that is the Southern High Plains of Texas. When I moved to Lubbock from Chicago in 1996, the “horizontal yellow,” as author Dan Flores called it, pulled me in as no city landscape ever could. The land was everything to the people who roamed it and to those who eventually settled it. It...
Sunday, January 13, 2013 - 1:48am
By Susan Shore, Texas Heritage Trails Program Specialist
In rural Motley County, the story of its historic jail is woven into narratives of the county and the region—including the area’s connection to Quanah Parker and the Comanche Nation, the development of historic and modern-day ranch operations, community development and the establishment of the rule of law, and the lingering tales...
