from TexasBookLover

TEXAS HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY Roger D. Hodge Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover, 978-0-3079-6140-2 (also available as an e-book and an audiobook), 368 pgs., $28.95 October 10, 2017 Te...

from Sheila1957

This was not what I expected. I was expecting a book about the Hodge family and their history and genealogy. What I got was part travelogue; part history of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico; part family history; part current events. Once the travelogue part was gone over, the history part w...

from MM_Jones

I wanted to like this book much more than I actually did. Parts were riveting, but how to find those parts? It is presented by the publisher as "an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas...". A favorable review describes it as a "melange of family history, m...