Winner, Journalistic Achievement Award, Texas Historical Foundation, 2004 From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing mausoleum, every marker

Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of small country graveyards.

Exploring cemeteries across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas, this unusual travel guide illuminates the history behind the sites and the peo

Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan h

A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things a