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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August 31, 2026 • 23 mins
With part 5 of the series, we reach the end of Bianca's time with the Comanches. Taken from their home at a young age, this is Bianca Babb's memory of what she and her brother experienced living with the Comanche.
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August 24, 2026 • 21 mins
With part 4 of the series, we near the end of Bianca's time with the Comanches. Taken from their home at a young age, this is Bianca Babb's memory of what she and her brother experienced living with the Comanche.
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August 17, 2026 • 32 mins
Taken from their home at a young age, this is Bianca Babb's memory of what she and her brother experienced living with the Comanche. This is part three of Bianca's story.
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August 11, 2026 • 19 mins
Taken from their home at a young age, this is Bianca Babb's memory of what she and her brother experienced living with the Comanche.
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July 26, 2026 • 32 mins
With this episode we shift to the perspective of Bianca Babb Bell, who at the age of ten was taken captive with her brother by the Comanches. And yes, I did make a pretty silly factual error in this episode while improvising about the Red River. The Red River runs east, not west. Always has.
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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.
WARNING: This episode shares a story of extreme cruelty and violence perpetuated in the 1860s. Do not listen unless you are prepared for a graphic, but true, story of captivity. It also includes unacceptable pejoratives and epithets against Native ...
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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.
WARNING: This episode shares a story of extreme cruelty and violence perpetuated in the 1860s. 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 commo...
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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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