Texas history museum explores faith and the American West
The title of the exhibit at the Bullock Texas State History Museum promises to cover quite a stretch of territory: “Acts of Faith: Religion & the American West.” After all, faith is an experience that touches, in one way or another, almost everyone.
The American West? Virtually all of the continental United States, more than 3 million square miles of it, was once considered “the West” by those newcomers from Europe who first settled on the eastern shores of what became the U.S. Those who arrived from the south did not think of it as the West but rather as El Norteño. READ MORE AT THE AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN…