Texas Originals

By Season

Texas Originals is a radio series profiling individuals whose life and achievements have had a profound influence upon Texas history and culture. Texas Originals is developed in partnership with Houston Public Radio and Austin PBS.

Season 1
Stephen F. Austin
Roy Bedichek
John T. Biggers
Billy Lee Brammer
J. Mason Brewer
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Amon G. Carter
Carlos E. Castañeda
Norris Wright Cuney
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Dominique and John de Menil
Susanna Dickinson
James Frank Dobie
Clara Driscoll
Edna Ferber
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
Horton Foote
Héctor P. García
Jovita González
Charles Goodnight
Oveta Culp Hobby
Ima Hogg
Mary Austin Holley
Sam Houston
Arthur John "Jack" Johnson
Barbara Jordan
Tom Lea
Mickey Leland
Alan Lomax
John Avery Lomax
Damián Massanet
Jane Y. McCallum
Willie Morris
José Antonio Navarro
Elisabet Ney
Chester William Nimitz
Frederick Law Olmsted
Quanah Parker
Katherine Anne Porter
William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
Harry Huntt Ransom
Frank Reaugh
James Earl Rudder
Dorothy Scarborough
Zachary Scott
Juan Seguín
Belle Starr
William Barret Travis
King Vidor
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Lorenzo de Zavala
Season 2
Andy Adams
Mary Kay Ash
Moses Austin
Karle Wilson Baker
Eugene C. Barker
Etta Moten Barnett
Amelia E. Barr
Plácido Benavides
Nettie Lee Benson
Annie Webb Blanton
Julius Bledsoe
Mody Coggin Boatright
Gail Borden Jr.
Chief Bowl
William Cowper Brann
Henry Allen Bullock
Jane McManus Storm Cazneau
Sarah Horton Cockrell
Henry Cohen
Bessie Coleman
Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis
Martín De León
Adina De Zavala
Green and Sarah DeWitt
James Fannin
James L. Farmer Jr.
O'Neil Ford
John Nance Garner
Henry B. González
Laura Vernon Hamner
Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí
James Stephen Hogg
Sarah T. Hughes
Jovita Idár
Margo Jones
Scott Joplin
Donald Clarence Judd
Elmer Kelton
Larry L. King
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Russell Lee
Mary Ann Adams Maverick
Marion Koogler McNay
Américo Paredes
Cynthia Ann Parker
Sam Rayburn
Tomás Rivera
Cleto Rodríguez
Winifred Sanford
Melvin B. Tolson
John Goodwin Tower
Walter Prescott Webb
Season 3
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda
Anne Armstrong
Tex Avery
Betty Eve Ballinger
Mary Elizabeth Branch
Caro Brown
Buffalo Hump
Liz Carpenter
John Saunders Chase
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Juanita Craft
Walter Cronkite
Edmund J. Davis
William J. Durham
José de Escandón
Thomas Freeman
Matthew Gaines
Bernardo de Gálvez
John Graves
John Howard Griffin
Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge
Dorothy Hood
Lillian Horace
Luis Jiménez
Jesse H. Jones
Enid Justin
Henrietta Chamberlain King
René-Robert La Salle
Antonio Margil de Jesús
Larry McMurtry
Lydia Mendoza
Alice Dickerson Montemayor
Audie Murphy
Josefina Niggli
Alonso S. Perales
Selena Quintanilla Pérez
George Sessions Perry
Irma Rangel
Robert Rauschenberg
Julia Scott Reed
José Francisco Ruiz
Emmett J. Scott
Erasmo Seguín
Adela Sloss-Vento
Cyrus R. "C. R." Smith
Lucille Bishop Smith
Heman Sweatt
Allie Victoria Tennant
Lulu B. White
Bob Wills
Ruthe Winegarten
Bill Wittliff

Héctor P. García

Minnie Fisher Cunningham

John Biggers

Quanah Parker

Barbara Jordan

Américo Paredes

Dorothy Scarborough

George Thomas "Mickey" Leland

Questions about Texas Originals

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