Explaining Texas

Explaining Texas is over seventy stories every Texan should know about Texas. For non- Texans, it helps them understand why Texans are the way they are. The cattle drives up the Chisom trail to Abilene. Texas Rangers, “One Ranger, one riot.” Famous Rangers , Hays, McNelly, Walker. Outlaws John Wesley Hardin shot 42 men who just needed killing. Dallas dentist, Doc. Holliday, Lady outlaw Belle Star, and others. Jefferson, Texas, on the shores of Caddo Lake, the most beautiful lake in the United States, where they averaged a murder a day. The Texas revolution, the Goliad massacre, battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto. The Texas Navy that made independence possible. Galveston, the 1900 hurricane, worst natural disaster on American history. Cynthia Ann Parker, abducted by Comanche as a child, Gave birth to the last and greatest Comanche Chief. Texas weather, Wrong way Corrigan, the dust bowl, buried treasure, Del Rio Radio, and many more.