It's a tale that sounds like something out of an old Western: A big-moneyed city dweller descends on a small Texas town with nefarious plans to turn the community into a new development, and the town ...

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online. Here's a ...

Nineteenth-century German farmers and their emigration to Texas -- Germans in the cotton kingdom : the eastern end of the German belt, 1831-1885 -- Germans on the rim of the desert : the western end ...

Here's a real-life mystery for you. A small-town Texas librarian finds a musty, old Bible and soon realizes that it's unlike any Bible she's ever seen. It's hundreds of years old and written in a ...