Stephan L Moore Texas Rising

The weakest part of our historic knees are the bends in our journey. We know when America was discovered. The Civil War, Civil Rights and September 11th. Something happened in Texas that shaped this entire nation. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with author Stephen L Moore TEXAS RISING, by acclaimed Texas historian Stephen L. Moore (William Morrow Hardcover; May 12th), is the official nonfiction companion to the HISTORY ten-hour mini-series set to debut Memorial Day, May 25. With the same production and writing team behind the record-breaking Hatfields & McCoys and starring Bill Paxton, Ray Liotta, Kris Kristofferson, and other notables, the five-part series that The Hollywood Reporter recently called “an 1830s version of American Sniper” is poised to be one of the most watched and anticipated television events of the summer. Moore (a descendent of Texas Rangers) offers a “fast moving narrative” (Library Journal) that tells the full, thrilling story of the Texas’s revolution, its years as a sovereign nation (1836-1846), and the rise of the legendary Rangers who patrolled the violent western frontier. In 1836, if west of the Mississippi was considered the Wild West then Texas was hell on earth. Crushed from the outside by Mexican armadas and attacked from within by the ferocious Comanche—no one was safe. But this was a time of bravery, a time to die for what you believed in and a time to stand tall against the rule of the Mexican General Santa Anna, who slaughtered Texans at the Alamo and the “Goliad Massacre.” They were the Texas Rangers, a ragtag crew of men fighting on horseback, often outnumbered by as many as fifty to one. Yet under renowned General Sam Houston they helped achieve victory against nearly impossible odds, earning a legendary place in American history. *A Main Selection of the History Book Club* ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen L. Moore, a sixth-generation Texan and part Cherokee, is the author of multiple books on World War II and Texas history, including Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway (NAL Caliber, 2014), the four-volume series Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas: 1835–1837, Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Independence Campaign, and Taming Texas, a biography of his ancestor William T. Sadler, who was one of the first Texas Ranger captains in the 1830s. A graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, Moore lives north of Dallas in Lantana, Texas, with his wife, Cindy, and their three children. Steve’s forefathers helped create Texas, serving as legislators, militamen, Texas Rangers, frontier Indian fighters, and as soldiers of the Confederacy in the Civil War. Two of his great-great-grandfathers, William T. Sadler and John Morton, fought at San Jacinto and helped the Republic of Texas secure its independence. Sadler was one of the first Texas Rangers captains in 1836, and later served as both a militia and Texas Army captain during the Texas Indian Wars. Two of Steve’s other ancestors—Thomas Alonzo Menefee and his father Laban Menefee—served with the Texas Rangers during the 1830s. His deep interest in the Texas Indians Wars, the Texas Revolution, and the early Rangers prompted him to spend years studying these subjects. The results of his research have been previously published in Eighteen Minutes, his extensive history of the San Jacinto campaign, and in a four-volume series on the republic-era Texas Rangers titled Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas.