Texas, the Lone Star State, a self-contained nation of cattle barons and con-artists, renegades and real-estate tycoons, baton-twisting cheerleaders and back-room politicians, oil magnates and old-time gospel preachers.
And Texas is the story of the daring men and women who made that land great, from the earliest explorers and missionaries to the latest fortune-seekers come to bask in the Sunbelt. Four hundred years of brawling, boisterous history, of families rising up from the dust, of fortunes made and lost, of furious battles and tender love affairs. The Titan of the Southwest, in all its grandeur and glory.
