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EP. 156 (Live From Young County) Fort Belknap with Jim Hammond
Why would an Army fort on the Texas frontier be built without a wall? In episode 156 of Wise About Texas, recorded live at the Young County Museum of History and Culture in Graham, Texas, host Ken Wise talks with Jim Hammond, director of...
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EP. 155: (Live from Young County) Starting a History Museum with Shannon Potts & Tony Widner
In episode 155 of Wise About Texas, Ken Wise sits down with curator and board president Tony Widner and founder Shannon Potts at the Young County Museum of History and Culture’s first-anniversary celebration. Neither had run a museum before, yet they turned a 1937...
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Ep. 154: When Lone Star Cowboys Took the Sport of Kings
Polo is called the sport of kings — but in America, it ran on Texas cow ponies. In this episode of Wise About Texas, host Ken Wise traces the interesting but often ignored history of Texas polo, beginning with cavalry drills in sixth-century B.C....
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EP. 153: How to Start a War- The Warfield and Snively Raids
In the early 1840s, a broke Republic of Texas could barely afford an army, so President Sam Houston tried something else: he deputized private citizens to raid Mexican trade on the Santa Fe Trail and split the spoils with the government. What followed was...
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Ep. 152: Teeing off with Wise About Golf!
I have started a second podcast. It is called Wise About Golf, it is a Texas golf history podcast, and the first episodes are up now. Here is why. Golf is not a break from Texas history. It is a way into it. The...
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EP. 151: A Road Trip Through the Republic
We think and talk a lot about the Republic of Texas (I hope). But what are we talking about? Most of the early settlement in Mexican Texas was east of the Colorado River and extended up the river as far as La Grange. The...
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