
David G. McComb, professor of history at Colorado State University, is author of Houston: A History and Galveston: A History, also published by the University of Texas Press. McComb grew up in Houston and has lived in Dallas, San Antonio, Galveston, and Austin. He is a fellow...

Since its publication in 1989, Texas, A Modern History has established itself as one of the most readable and reliable general histories of Texas. David McComb paints the panorama of Lone Star history from the earliest Indians to the present day with a vigorous brush that uses...
