Check out a book called "Born Fighting" by Dr. James Webb if you are interested in how America was shaped.

You will read about people and they will be basically the same people you grew up and around. Hard workers, hard fighters, hard drinkers, go -getters on the male side and a solid Christian woman that tied the family together.

Most people will recognize their own history from the eyes of another.

It is a good read.

EWO