Tamers of The Texas Frontier

In the 1830s, Texas was mostly wilderness. Millstones were cutting-edge technology. But with astonishing rapidity, the contours of modern Texas emerged. Meet the men and women who accomplished that transformation. Walk the crooked streets of 1828 San Antonio and witness the rebuilding of Galveston’s seawall after the Great Storm of 1900. Learn whether buffaloes ever passed along the Buffalo Bayou and how socialism fared on the frontier as C. Herndon Williams profiles the people and events that shaped the Lone Star State’s history.