About the Author

Betty Trapp Chapman is an independent scholar whose special field of interest is women’s history. She lives in Houston, where she has been researching, writing, and lecturing for more than twenty years. This is her sixth book.


Also by Betty Trapp Chapman

• Two-Minute Histories of Houston
• Historic Houston
• Houston Women: Invisible Threads in the Tapestry
• 100 years-100 Stories: The Houston Public Library 1904-2004
• Historic Photos of Houston