S.C. Gwynne

What was Texas like when it was still wild – just after independence in the mid 19th Century? Journalist S.C. Gwynne tells the legendary story of the 1836 kidnapping of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker and its consequences in his highly-acclaimed new book “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History” (Scribner, 2010). He’ll be our guest this hour.

What was Texas like when it was still wild – just after independence in the mid 19th Century? Journalist S.C. Gwynne tells the legendary story of the 1836 kidnapping of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker and its consequences in his highly-acclaimed new book “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History” (Scribner, 2010). He’ll be our guest this hour.

How should Texas’ public lands be managed? We’ll explore the Christmas Mountains controversy and the policies of Texas land Commissioner Jerry Patterson this hour with S. C. Gwynne, whose article, “This Land Is His Land,” appears in the May issue of Texas Monthly Magazine.

You may have heard that the price of electricity is rising, but have you heard about TXU’s five-year plan to build eleven new coal-fired power plants? Texas Monthly Executive Editor, S.C. Gwynne talked to folks on both sides of the issue for his January article “COAL HARD FACTS.” We’ll spend the hour with S.C. Gwynne.