Texas Dames

In Texas, everything is bigger—even the accomplishments of the Lone Star State’s women. The collection of biographies contained in Carmen Goldthwaite’s book Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History admirably illustrates that thought. She recounts the lives of driven ladies such as Peggy McCormick, a rancher who fearlessly stood up to Texas revolutionary leader Sam Houston by demanding he bury, on her land, the bodies of the Mexican men he had shot in battle. She e