Aug. 30, 2012 - Truth isn't always stranger than fiction but it's true that some very strange fiction has its roots in some even stranger truths. Cormac McCarthy's novel "Blood Meridian" is so outlandishly violent that readers of a modern era might assume he just made it all up, which of course he did, since the book is a work of fiction.

Aug. 23, 2012 - Born to a family of cattlemen in Brazoria County in 1895, Carl T. Sprague was a real cowboy, a real athletic trainer, a real businessman and the first singing cowboy to have his songs recorded. Other singing cowboys like Gene Autry and Tex Ritther (both Texans) became rich and famous, but Sprague was the first to get his songs "on wax."