This is the story of how a myth began, with the Texas Revolution against Mexico, cattle drives, and "hyperactive" Texas Rangers, and became embodied in larger-than-life figures, from Sam Houston to "Speaker Sam" Rayburn, from the explorer La Salle to L. B. J. It is also the story of a state larger than its myth, a Confederate state that contained enclaves of pro-Union German-Americans, a football-loving state that produced musicians of the sensitivity of Scott Joplin and Van Cliburn, a western state that also is Southern, Mexican, and Spanish in its influences.
- ISBN10 0393301737
- ISBN13 9780393301731
- Publish Date 29 August 1984 (first published 17 May 1984)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 March 2004
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English