LONE STAR 
Subtitle: A History of Texas and the Texans
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Published: August 1, 1980
Language: eng
Number of pages: 761
ISBN-13: 9780020321903
First sentence: In the beginning, before any people, was the land: an immense region 265,000 square miles in area rising out of the warm muck of the green Gulf of Mexico.