An American trader and filibuster, Philip Nolan, enters northeast Texas to hunt for wild horses. Spanish troops from Nacogdoches capture Nolan and his party. To ward off other encroachments ...

The limestone buildings shimmer in the blazing Texas sun. A Franciscan friar emerges from the parish office behind the church ...

The written history on those ranches dates to the ... can claim not only ties to one of the many 17th- and 18th-century Spanish missions in Texas, but the actual remains of the mission itself.

The Alamo, where the defeat of Texas revolutionaries by Mexican forces inspired an iconic battle cry, marks its 189th anniversary on Thursday.

Despite warnings from the Caddo tribe about approaching Spanish troops, the expedition pressed forward into Texas. The expedition's fate, however, took an unexpected turn as they ventured further ...

Texas declared its Independence from the Dictator Santa Anna to establish itself as a free Nation. The siege at the Alamo ended on March 6, 1836, but the Texans won the war at the Battle of San ...