Texas History Lessons
Texas History Lessons is a slow walk through Texas history. It takes the time to learn about the many exciting and important people, places and events in Texas history, with a focus on some that are sometimes overlooked. So join in and time travel back to visit the amazing people and events that helped shape modern Texas and the world.
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May 4, 2026 • 36 mins
In this sixth installment looking at Dot Babb's memoir, we learn some intersting details of how the Comanches lived on the plains.
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April 27, 2026 • 32 mins
This episode follows Dot Babb's journey home, without the help of William Tecusmseh Sherman.
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April 20, 2026 • 34 mins
In this episode we learn much more about Dot Babb's time with the Comanche in addition to official efforts between the State of Texas and the United States governments to free captives.
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April 15, 2026 • 23 mins
This episode continues the story of the Babb children with a focus on what happened to Mrs. Luster...and we learn that we have to be careful about who we believe.
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March 23, 2026 • 29 mins
This episode continues the story of the Babb children's journey into captivity with some additional information concerning attempts to rescue them. Do they dare to attempt an escape? Listen and find out!
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March 17, 2026 • 34 mins
This episode introduces a new series focusing on the lives of Dot and Bianca Babb, two young children taken from their home on the Texas frontier and their subsequent life with the Comanche people.
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March 4, 2026 • 57 mins
This episode is provided for everyone who wants to hear the story of Jane Wilson, complete and uninterrupted.
WARNING: This episode shares a story of extreme cruelty and violence perpetuated in the 1850. Do not listen unless you are prepared for a graphic, but true, story of captivity. It also includes unacceptable pejoratives and epithets against Native peoples that were common for the time period.
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March 2, 2026 • 33 mins
What happened to Jane Wilson? How did she survive, all alone, the harshness of the Texas plains. What happened to the brothers? In this episode we conclude Jane's personal narrative and dig even deeper to answer these questions and more. And the story of Mrs. Wilson and the boys is not just their survival tale. Another person survived their own terrible experience as well. Listen to hear more of this exciting tale!
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February 23, 2026 • 36 mins
This episode shares the story of Jane Wilson's hard life, centered around the harsh experience of being taken captive by a group of Comanche people in the 1850s.
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February 15, 2026 • 42 mins
What a difference time and perspective can make on how we view things in the world!
The goal of this post is to consider that opening line along with further introducing you to the work of Mary Austin Holley, give a peak into how people viewed Texas and the Comanches in the early 1830s, along with asking you to consider how our opinions and perspectives change over time. A tall task but I think you can do it.There's also a little...
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February 9, 2026 • 27 mins
As the title suggests, this episode takes a look at a very complimentary description of Texas in 1832 that would entice even the most reluctant settler.
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February 2, 2026 • 109 mins
This episode contains Lottie H. Hargrove's Texas History in Rhyme, complete and unabridged. The book was originally published in 1910.
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January 26, 2026 • 25 mins
This episode continues our look at Lottie H. Hargrove's Era of the State.
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January 19, 2026 • 25 mins
This episode covers the Sixth Era of Lottie H. Hargrove's Texas History in Rhyme, the Era of the State. It is part one for that era and covers the history of Texas from the time it became a state in the Union to 1870.
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January 12, 2026 • 14 mins
This episode concludes Lottie H. Hargrove's Era of the Republic.
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January 5, 2026 • 27 mins
This episode shares the first part of Lottie H. Hargrove's Era of the Republic.
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January 2, 2026 • 21 mins
Happy New Years wishes with a little bit about history and a little bit about the future.
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January 1, 2026 • 32 mins
This episode continues our look at Lottie H. Hargrove's Texas History in Rhyme and her attempt to set the Era of Revolution down in verse.
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December 22, 2025 • 26 mins
This episode investigates what ties The Killers, Michael Martin Murphey, and the Poet Ranchman of Texas together. Here's a spoiler --its a poem titled The Cowboy's Christmas Ball. There's a few bonuses at the end as well.
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December 15, 2025 • 52 mins
This episode looks again at the work of John Avery Lomax and the shift of the American cowboy from rustic hired hand to Texas and American icons.
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