This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the et

This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the C

From the moment Lorenzo Valdez saved Angie Torres from being crushed by an angry mule, he knew she was trouble. Having rolled her out of harm’s way, he can’

Chronicles the conquest of the Karankawas and Tonkawas Indians by white settlers in nineteenth-century Texas.

“Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers.” —The New York Times Book Review A twenty-first century reckonin