Rambling Boy
The Rambling Boy: Stories About Texas is a weekly look at regional history, hosted by Lonn Taylor of Fort Davis.
Taylor was a writer and historian who moved to the Big Bend after retiring from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 2002.
Latest Episodes
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On this weeks Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks about Rudy Rodriguez, who is trying to start a museum for the Tejanos of Texas. -
On this weeks Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks about the only Grizzly Bear ever found in Texas, which was found and hunted in the Davis Mountains -
On this weeks Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks more about Old Louie, the ghost horse of Building 98 in Marfa, who was recently covered on There's Something… -
Lonn takes us through the stories of two very different Texas governors' baptisms in the same small creek. -
Rambling Boy waxes on another historian or sorts, Mr. Edward Larocque Tinker. Lonn describes not only Mr. Tinker’s adventurous life, but his important… -
Prompted by Flag Day, Mr. Taylor, an expert on Old Glory, brings to light the complex history of American's original banners. The particular flag of note… -
Mr. Taylor briefs us on the history of the Juneteenth holiday, which celebrates slavery's end in Texas in the year 1865. However rather than relying on… -
Mr. Taylor was warned about debt and fast living at early age by his mother. One of the first warnings her son received involved a teenage beaux of hers… -
Having grown up in what was once considered the Wild West, Mr. Taylor recounts Fort Worth's dubious past. He recounts the history of Fort Worth's infamous… -
Lonn recounts finally breaking down and purchasing his first iPhone. Despite its true purpose, he rarely uses it to communicate, and even more rarely…
