Those were the headlines for April 8, 1900 — as reimagined "in the style of the day" for the American-Statesman on April 8, 1976 — when the Austin Dam, which supplied the city with almost all its ...

Some family names pop up with regularity in the American-Statesman archives. Walsh is one of them. In this column on April 20, members of the Walsh family were recorded as selling their land in what ...

The monoliths in this 1940 cover image are the Tainter gates of the Austin Dam in Texas, a troubled structure which was undergoing a comprehensive rebuild at the time. When completed in 1893 it was ...