Texas Tales: Stories That Shaped a Landscape and a People

These tales trace the Texas story from Cabeza de Vaca, who trekked barefoot across the country recording the first accounts of Indian life, to empresarios like Stephen F. Austin and Don Martín DeLeón, who brought settlers into Mexican Texas. There are visionaries like Padre José Nicolás Ballí, the Singer Family, and Sam Robertson who tried and failed to develop Padre Island into the wonderland that it is today. Legendary characters like Sally Skull, who had five husbands and may have killed...