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The story of two small cannons that fought at the battle of San Jacinto to help secure Texas independance from Mexico.

In 1949 the first television station signed on in Houston. The call letters were KLEE TV Channel 2.

One of the most unique and biologically diverse areas in the Lone Star State.

On one tragic night during the Great storm of 1900 the Bolivar Point Lighthouse became a refuge for more than 100 people.

Texas paid for the Capitol building with land instead of money.

Millions of Texans have recited it, but where did it come from? And, did you know, the original version contained a little historical mistake?

One of the biggest traditions in the Lone Star State... The State Fair of Texas!

Towering limestone walls ride above the Rio Grande seperating Texas from Mexico.

The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 devestated the island. 6,000 to 8,000 people lost their lives. But Galveston rebuilt and thrives today.

That strip of land just north of Texas known as the Oklahoma Panhandle went for decades without an organized territorial government... it was called no mans land.

St. Joseph Island is thought to be where the United State flag was raised for the first time when Texas was annexed.

Everybody's somebody in Luckenbach.

It's hard to imagine now, but much of what is the Katy area today was rice fields as far as the eye could see.

178 miles of the legendary highway runs through the Texas panhandle.

The Shamrock Hotel was once considered the finest hotel in the Southwest and olne of Houston's most glamorous landmarks.