It's a vast rugged stretch of land that covers more than 37,000 square miles from Austin and San Antonio all the way west to the Pecos River.

Back in the 1700s Spainish missionaries built five missions along tghe San Antonio River.

The Big Country is a wide open area of Texas around Abilene, Sweetwater, and Brownwood where the sky feels like it goes on foreever.

It's sometimes called the Grand Canyon of Texas. Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest canyon in the United States.

John Henry Kirby was known as the Piney Woods King because of his timber empire.

The King Ranch in South Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

The King Ranch is more than 825,000 acres.

Galveston was once the largest city in Texas, until it was nearly wiped off the map.

Alarm clocks have been around for centuries, but in 1956 they got an upgrade.

Six Flags Over Texas opened on August 1, 1961 in Arlington.