Texas (On the Road Histories): On-the-Road Histories

Mary Jo Powell’s Texas begins with a panorama of the vast Texas landscape, from the Piney Woods to Big Bend Country, before turning to the people of the land now called Texas. She begins with those who inhabited the area before the Spanish arrived, the story of the Alamo, the movement from independent nation to state, the role of slavery in Texas, the state’s role in the Civil War and reconstruction, and how the state survived both World Wars and the Depression. Along the way, Powell addres...