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Episode 9 of The History of Texas, “The Price of Rescue,” is live.

The first listener Q&A is open—send questions to [email protected] by Sunday, August 2 at 8 p.m. CT.

I’ve also posted the complete roadmap through the De Soto premiere:

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Episode 8 of The History of Texas is available now.

After Cabeza de Vaca became angry, sickness spread through the people traveling with him. Eight men died the next day.

To the people around him, it looked like proof that the four survivors could kill simply by willing it.

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The History of Texas has officially gained its second monthly supporter.

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On this day in Texas history, July 18, 1918, Daniel R. Edwards of Mooreville, Texas, performed the actions near Soissons, France that earned him the Medal of Honor.

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After nearly eight years of captivity, hunger, healing, and wandering, Cabeza de Vaca and the other survivors finally found signs of Spaniards.

But the Christians waiting ahead had not come as rescuers.

Episode 8: Horses and Chains is live now!

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EPISODE 8 OF THE HISTORY OF TEXAS IS LIVE: HORSES AND CHAINS

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On this day in Texas history, July 15, 1839, the principal battle of the Cherokee War began near the Neches River west of Tyler.

Texas troops under T. J. Rusk, Edward Burleson, and Kelsey Douglass fought Cherokee warriors led by Chief Bowl.

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Flying a specially equipped Lockheed 14 with a four-man crew, Hughes circled the globe in just 3 days, 19 hours, and 17 minutes.

A Texan helped prove the future of long-distance air travel.

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Cabeza de Vaca didn’t just survive. In one of the wildest moments from Episode 7, he reportedly cut an arrowhead from a man’s chest and stitched the wound with a deer bone.

Episode 7: Children of the Sun is out now.

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Episode 7 of The History of Texas dropped this weekend.

Children of the Sun follows Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes, Alonso del Castillo, and Estebanico as they go from myth to living legend as healers and holy men.

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Stopped inside the Stonewall Saloon Museum in Saint Jo, Texas, and this place is packed with local history.

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The Avavares told Cabeza de Vaca and the other survivors about something they called La Mala Cosa.

The Bad Thing.

Small.
Hard to see clearly.

They said it came at night, entered homes, cut people open with flint, and somehow closed the wounds again.

Episode six is live now!

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On this day in Texas history, July 4, 1845, the Republic of Texas took a major step toward joining the United States.

A convention met in Austin to consider annexation.

The vote was 55 to 1.

Texas had already won its independence. Now it was moving toward statehood.

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Cabeza de Vaca wandered too far while searching for food.

When he turned back, the others were gone.

For five days, he wandered alone through the wilderness with no food, no shoes, no clothing, and only fire to keep himself alive.

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Episode 6 of The History of Texas is out now.

What the Smoke Revealed

Cabeza de Vaca and the survivors escape the Texas coast, encounter the Avavares, hear the story of La Mala Cosa, and begin their transformation from castaways into healers.

Campfire Story drops tonight.

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On this day in Texas history, July 3, 1907, Don Pedrito Jaramillo died in South Texas near Falfurrias.

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After nearly six years trapped along the Texas coast, the survivors finally escaped.

Then they saw smoke on the horizon.

Smoke meant people.

And people meant danger.

But also opportunity.

Episode 6 of The History of Texas: What the Smoke Revealed drops Friday, July 3rd.

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I stopped at the Nokona Baseball Glove Museum in Nocona, Texas, and found one of the coolest small-town history stops in North Texas. From leather goods and the Chisholm Trail to handmade American baseball gloves, World War II production, and the 2023 World Series

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A Spanish royal official crossed the ocean in service of conquest and empire.

Then the expedition collapsed.

Shipwrecked, isolated, and trapped on the Texas coast, Cabeza de Vaca became something very different.

A trader.

Episode 5 of The History of Texas is live now!

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@japan_nobunaga In the distant future people will unearth the remains of that beaver statue outside the store and believe this to be a place of religious worship