Robert F. Darden, Editor emeritus

Robert F. Darden, Editor emeritus

Did Any Baylor Bear Ever Have a Wilder, Woolier, More Explosive Life Than Col. George Wythe Baylor?

George’s tumultuous life is the stuff of legends, of Hollywood action movies, of dime store novels.  He was a restless pioneer. A leader. A stone-cold killer. A mass of contradictions. It’s not a pretty story at times, certainly not by today’s standards, but few people in the American west lived a more eventful life than […]

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The Last Leaf on the Tree: Willie Nelson’s Triumphant Return to Baylor

It was a glorious, picture-perfect night for Willie Nelson’s triumphant return to Baylor University. Not that Willie has ever really been away. He may have resettled in Austin, but his roots and heart are still in the blackland prairie soil of Central Texas — nourished in the rich loam of countless honky-tonks and SPJST halls.

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The School That Saved Baylor: Legacies of Waco University

Baylor University’s beloved origin story — how Texas’ oldest university, a scrappy little Baptist college in tiny Independence, overcame impossible odds, moved to Waco, and became one of America’s great institutions — conveniently glosses over the other significant factor in that transformation: Waco University. And while the larger-than-life presence of irascible, imperious Rufus C. Burleson

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Wolfhounds and Polar Bears, Bandits and Bolsheviks: The Baylor General at the Heart of the Calamitous Siberia Fiasco (Also, the FBI)

William Sidney Graves was born on March 27, 1865, in Mount Calm, 24 miles northeast of Waco on old Highway 31. Before his death on February 27, 1940, he would experience several lifetimes’ worth of adventures, be called a revolutionary and a counter-revolutionary, see much of the world, and become the central figure in one

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Will Canon: Film and Perseverance

Baylor University’s legacy of filmmakers, screenwriters, playwrights, and actors is uncommonly rich and varied – John Lee Hancock, Kevin Reynolds, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Robert Askins, Mark Olsen, Carole “Cookie” Cook, Geoff Moore, Jordan Hearne, Maree Cheatham, Angela Kinsley, Clu Gulager, and so many others – but few have had a more intriguing path than

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Owen Lind and the Birth of Environmental Studies at Baylor

“The building of a better environment will require in the long term a citizenry that is both deeply concerned and fully informed. Thus, I believe that our educational system at all levels has a critical role to play.” – President Richard M. Nixon At age 91, Dr. Owen Lind still vividly remembers the cacophony of

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