Some of these names you'll know and some you won't, but all have made significant contributions to Texas or the United States.The book features short biographies about: Lorenzo de Zavala, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, Robert Emmett Baylor, William Goyens, Jane Long, Gail Borden, Ferdinand Lindheimer, William B. Travis, John O. Meusebach, Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker, Elisabet Ney, Charles Goodnight, John Avery Lomax, Chester Nimitz, Fred Gipson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mildred "Babe" Didrickson and Barbara Jordon.