Texas. James Michener. 1987.

A self-contained nation of cattle barons and con-artists, renegades and real estate tycoons, baton-twirling cheerleaders and back-room politicians, oil magnates and old-time gospel preachers. Here is the story of the Lone Star State itself - a story of the daring men and women who made that land great, from the earliest explorers and missionaries to the latest fortune-seekers come to bask in the Sunbelt.