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10/31/2026

10/16/2026

Windy day Atascosa Court house Travis LetterPlaque dedication
Outstanding ceremony
Lee Spencer White speaking

10/06/2026

If you ever sang along with "Pass Me By" on a country station, you owe a Texas Ranger a small thank you.

Joaquin Jackson was at the Uvalde County jail on other Ranger business when he heard a teenage prisoner singing. The young man was Johnny Rodriguez, from Sabinal, and he could sing.

Jackson did something about it. He told "Happy" Shahan, the promoter who ran the Alamo Village movie set, and Shahan gave Johnny a job singing there. That is where Tom T. Hall and Bobby Bare heard him, and they pushed him toward Nashville.

"Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)" was his first record in 1972, and it went to number nine. The next year "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me" went to number one, and so did "Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico."

Jackson went on to become the face of the modern Texas Ranger, right there on the cover of Texas Monthly in 1994, and the model for Nick Nolte's part in Extreme Prejudice. He died in Alpine in 2016 at 80. Johnny Rodriguez died in San Antonio in May 2025 at 73.

A lot of lawmen would have walked right past that cell. This one stopped long enough to listen, and country music got one of its great voices out of it.

10/03/2026

Just arrived in Cuero, tomorrow is Travis Letter bronze dedication at the Courthouse.

07/07/2026

In Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a lead mine entrepreneur named Moses Austin formulated a plan that would eventually result in the creation of the Republic of Texas. And most people have never heard of him.
Moses Austin came to Missouri in 1798 to develop lead mines in the Ste. Genevieve

district, and he built a genuine fortune — and then lost it in the Panic of 1819. Facing financial ruin, Austin conceived of an audacious plan: to obtain a land grant from the Spanish government in Texas and colonize it with American settlers. He traveled to San Antonio in 1820, obtained the grant, and died on the journey home in 1821 — but not before passing his colonization plan to his son, Stephen F. Austin, who carried it out and became the “Father of Texas.”
The chain of events that led to the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the addition of the American Southwest to the United States began in a brick house in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Did you know about Moses Austin’s Missouri connection to Texas history? Tell us in the comments, and follow Missouri Untold.

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