This week’s edition of Rambling Boy delves into the history of the Langhorne Punitive Expedition, launched in response to a 1916 Mexican raid on the Texas towns of Glenn Springs and Boquillas.

On this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor remembers when his father used to work on the Mississippi River from 1924 to 1926. His father worked as as an inspector of levies and revetments for the Mississippi River Commission. For two years, he lived on a quarter boat and saw some interesting things and people drift down the river.

This week, Lonn Taylor talks about one of his great pleasures in life -- browsing in used bookstores. His father also loved to go to used bookstores and took Lonn with him for the first time when he was five. The first used book store Lonn remembers going to is Lowdermilk in Washington D.C. when he went with his father in 1945.

On this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks about David K. Langford, who used to make a living photographing other people's livestock. He later widened his scope to western wildlife and landscapes. Langford joined Lorie Woodward Cantu, a professional agricultural writer for Brahman Breeder-Feede, to produce a beautiful book, Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations, about land stewardship over six generations on a Texas Hill Country ranch.

In 1955, Patrick Dennis wrote the american novel, Auntie Mame. The book is about a boy who was raised by a madcap Aunt who turns his life into a series of delectable adventures. Lonn's mother had an Auntie Mame who went by Emily Keen. Lonn's mother went to live with her in Denver at the age of 14, and she changed his mother's life.

Texas has numerous historic roads that started as an indian path and were later widened and paved into a highway. Lonn's favorite historic Texas road is a little known backroad that runs at the bottom of the Colorado river between Austin and Bastrop.

A few weeks ago, Rambling Boy's Lonn Taylor was in San Antonio at his favorite meeting -- the Texas State Historical Association. 600 or so historians spend 3 days of trading stories about Texas history. This year, Lonn read a paper about Ima Hogg's contribution to the Texas Historical Preservation Movement. Due to the constraints of academia it was pretty dry, but on this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor takes the opportunity to give Ima Hogg's story some justice.

On this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks about another historic site along the Webberville Road. Just 6 miles East of Austin City Limits was a sign that resembled the outline of a greyhound above the words "Coasting Park." A dirt path lead to a pasture, where on Sunday afternoons, greyhound racing took place.

This week, Lonn Taylor gets meta-historical with a ramble on the history of the Texas State Historical Association.

On this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks about Susan James, an amateur archaeologist, photographer, and mountain climber.