In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, Burk and Quincey Morris, two Wild West celebrities, and Erzsebet arrive in San Antonio on the eve of a fateful auction.

SALADO — Well, it wasn’t really Jim Bowie’s knife, but it looked enough like one for an Alamo curator to put it on display for 10 years. Then, the story goes, U.S. officials found Mexico had the knife ...

Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would later inspire the fateful defeat of Mexican forces under the battle cry ...