Texana Archives - Mike Cox

Mike Cox–Texana–August 25, 2023August 28, 2023

It’s 3 a.m. and I’m desperately trying to get back to sleep. But my brain’s on-off switch is frustratingly stuck […]

Mike Cox–Austin, Texana–September 16, 2020September 17, 2020

Like most Baby Boomers, I became aware of phone booths long before I ever placed a call from one. That’s […]

Mike Cox–Austin, Texana, Texas Rangers–July 10, 2012September 14, 2020

The hot foam he daubed on the back of my neck felt great, but when the old man picked up […]

Mike Cox–Texana–November 27, 2011September 14, 2020

OK, I admit it. I have hunted treasure. Not with a crazed obsession like some, but over the years I’ve […]

Mike Cox–Texana–October 16, 2009September 14, 2020

The first book tour I ever made was in 1980, when my biography of Fred Gipson, the Texas author who […]

Mike Cox–Texana–October 16, 2009September 14, 2020

It’s a literary cliche for a writer to write about his adventures while on the road trying to peddle his […]

Mike Cox–Texana–September 24, 2009September 14, 2020

Just got word that the first volume of my Texas Ranger history, “The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” […]

Mike Cox–Texana–August 27, 2009September 14, 2020

I first met Elmer Kelton in the spring of 1967 when my granddad took me to San Angelo to help […]

Mike Cox–Texana–August 5, 2009September 14, 2020

The invention of pocketbooks, those ubiquitous paperbacks no vacationer would go to the beach without, changed the publishing world in […]

Mike Cox–Texana–October 29, 2008September 14, 2020

Twenty-three million people, give or take a few, live in Texas. And some of them are not like you and […]