The late ANN FEARS CRAWFORD wrote several books on Texas history including Texas Women: Frontier to Future, also with Crystal S. Ragsdale. She spent much of her time lecturing to women's groups, teachers, and librarians on the history, lives, and accomplishments of women in the Lone Star State.CRYSTAL SASSE RAGSDALE, a research historian and authority on 19th-century Texas, is the author of Women and Children of the Alamo and Texas Women: Frontier to Future, both by State House Press, and has also served on numerous editorial boards of organizations around the Lone Star State.