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Nation     • Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages   • Publisher:
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978-1-4000-3070-5 (1-4000-3070-6)  Chapter 1  The Promised Land
The land was enough to excite any man's lust, and perhaps
emotions more deadly. Geology and climate had shaped the region
of Texas between the Gulf of Mexico and the Balcones Escarpment
almost as if they had human settlement in mind. Like most of the
North American continent, this land formed beneath the sea, from
sediment drifting down through tepid waters inhabited by
prehistoric crustaceans and bony fish. The bones and shells
mixed with mud to form the chalky limestone that would
characterize much of Texas when it surfaced. Eventually the sea
bottom rose, as it did all a