"We have often heard of nowhere and supposed it somewhere in Texas."--"Galveston"" Times"
"I went to Texas and ran wild on her prairies."--William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
"God made Texas when he was a small boy and wanted a sandbox."--"Folklore on the ""American""""Land"
"A Texan ain't nothing but a human being way out on a limb."--John Wayne's line in "The Searchers"
"We are a wordy bunch, always have been, and for almost two centuries, outsiders, intrigued by all the commotion down here in the Southwest, have come to inspect, dissect, cuss and praise. . . . Texas is a...

Why am I an Iconoclast? . . . Sir, I am a seeker of Truth. . . . W]hen you get an idea, put it on the anvil and bid the world hit it with the heaviest sledge. The more you hammer Truth the brighter it becomes."When an enraged reader gunned him down in Waco, April Fool's Day 1898, William Cowper Brann had published The Iconoclast, the nation's most controversial magazine, for some forty months. It was the only American journal to claim a quarter-of-a-million monthly circulation, owing largely to Brann's gusto for offering up his "truths." Though his circulation was international, his favorite...