books.google.com - During the decades from 1982 to 1992, Texas banks failed at a rate unprecedented in United States history, even including the Great Depression of the 1930s. In all, 506 Texas commercial banks failed (accounting for 36% of all failures nationally), including seven of the ten largest banks in Texas. In...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_great_Texas_banking_crash.html?id=DaIEl3w5EbMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe great Texas banking crash