"A fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable." Larry McMurtry In a sprawling, colorful family saga that takes us from border bandit skirmishes in the 1850s to boardroom battles in the 1990s, this acclaimed book tells the story of the fabled King Ranch in Texas, a Rhode Island - sized spread whose history inspired the movie Giant. "The King Ranch doesn't account for all of Texas, but even now, it speaks for all of Texas, and maybe for all of America." Boston Globe Don Graham (Austin, TX) is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly magazine and a professor at the University of Texas. He is the author of No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy as well as several books about Texas life and culture.