As Maury Maverick walks the scribble that passes for a trail on Sunshine Ranch on the city’s near Northwest Side, he points out the dumped trash, the feral dogs and the abandoned automobile that mar ...

That's why they were all heroes." Maury's own maverick ideal was an early ancestor, Samuel Maverick, a 17-year-old apprentice who died from wounds he received in the Boston Massacre, the deadly ...

It started in the 1800s, when the Texas landowner and lawyer Samuel Maverick, the story goes, did not brand his cattle. When other people saw his cattle wandering without a brand, they would say ...

Samuel Maverick Private Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey is made at entirely at the distillery from a mash bill of corn, rye and barley grown in the state. It’s aged onsite as well, down in ...

Samuel Maverick had a tradition: When he bought a piece of land, he sealed the deal with a handshake and a barrel of whiskey. That’s one of many interesting tidbits Kenneth Maverick has learned ...

But where does the term come from? Word maven William Safire explains that "Maverick" was the name of a Texan in the 1800s. Samuel Maverick, in fact. "He refused to brand his cattle, and the ...

While Samuel Maverick's name can be found on many things in San Antonio today, the famed Texas Declaration of Independence signer's legacy will soon also live on through a new downtown distillery ...

Maverick (the grandson of Samuel Maverick, the maverick politician from whom we get the word "maverick") had had enough of the bureaucratic jargon he encountered daily in his job as chairman of ...