Nate's Reviews > How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines

A look at the people who affected the borders of the states. For me, not as enjoyable as the original HTSGTS. It didn't match the humor and bounce.

The biographies get mired down in the thick gravy of legalese sometimes. And there's one person entered into this book who did not affect a state boundary at all. The entry tries to justify its inclusion by stating that the Kansan suffragette changed the borders of her state's human rights. As important as that is, she probably should have been edited out of the geography book.

I did enjoy the Sam Houston and Ethan Allen entries. Those two men had zazz, and I've always wondered exactly how they figured into history.