Aboard a 112-foot clipper, the author follows in the intrepid footsteps of Fanny Stevenson, maverick wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, and quickly finds that the two have much in common: a fascination w
When the early settlers arrived in the 1850s, the Blackland Prairie was covered with four-foot sage grass on which buffalo grazed. Land was cleared, homes were built, crops were planted in the rich fe
The Henry Pfluger Sr. family emigrated from Germany, eventually homesteading on the Blackland Prairie northeast of Austin in the early 1850s. As families grew and more people settled in the area, a po
