Frank X. Tolbert

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Frank X. Tolbert (1912-1984) was a Texas historian and newspaper columnist. Among his books of history are Neiman-Marcus, Texas (1953), The Day of San Jacinto (1959), and Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass (1962). For the Dallas Morning News, he wrote a local history column called Tolbert's Texas that ran for decades.

He was also a great connoisseur of food, wrote a history of chili con carne called A Bowl of Red (1962), and ran a chili restaurant in Dallas called "Tolbert's". He was one of the founders, with Wick Fowler, of the World Chili Championships held annually in Terlingua, Texas, which subsequently were named for them.

He died at age 72. His son Frank X. Tolbert II is an artist.