Texas Blood (Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands) San Antonio and a racetrack

and a racetrack

Born in 1864 and raised on a Minnesota farm

and Travel Holiday

the only child of Bob and Helen Kleberg

Drawing on twenty-five years of archaeological research and analysis

Texas Blood (Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands) San Antonio and a racetrackIn the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In