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Get ready for a gunfight in downtown Abilene on Saturday. This is a recreation of the infamous gunfight on Pine Street in 1884, and remember wear earplugs.

Christmastime is here but how much do you actually know about the holiday? There's a rich history with different origins and plenty of traditions. Discover some interesting facts about Christmas.

The Fredericksburg Texas Hanger Hotel and Museum is awe-inspiring. Take a stroll back in time at this historic Hotel and Museum. See airplanes from the past.

Texas' shortest elected official, Charley Lockhart, was less than 4 feet tall and is buried in Snyder.

We asked our listeners: here are the coolest (and quirkiest!) small-town museums in and around Abilene.

Here's why Abilene would be the perfect backdrop for an episode of the Western drama '1883'.

Here are some things you didn't know about the Six White Horses at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene.

The eight flying Buffalo over Frontier Texas are probably the best-kept secret in the world because they are a world record all their own, and here's why.

YouTube channel Exploring Project Bad has released a video tour of the white mansion on Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene.

We saw a first look ahead of Comic-Con 2016, but winds of change really are blowing into History’s Vikings for the second half of Season 4. Ragnar Lothbrok is back to lead his grown-up sons into war, and everything seems to be changing in the full trailer for Vikings' fall return.

An ever sensitive topic though it remains, slavery films in Hollywood have no doubt risen  the last few years in public profile, from '12 Years a Slave' to 'Django Unchained,' and now the trend has reached TV. History will reboot the iconic 'Roots' miniseries as an all-new drama, but who from the original production will have any involvement?

A few weeks ago, we learned the surprising (yet consistent) news that 'Vikings' season 2 would undergo an impressive time jump, aging the young Bjorn (Nathan O’Toole) into an older warrior portrayed by 'The Hunger Games' star Alexander Ludwig. More than a simple age-up however, what other major character dynamics will have shifted when 'Vikings' premieres its second season in 2014?