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Author : David A. Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823423699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book A Picture Book of Sam Houston written by David A. Adler and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a brief overview of the life and accomplishments of Texas politician Sam Houston.
Author : John Hoyt Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671880713
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Sam Houston written by John Hoyt Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-03-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the tumultuous backdrop of early Texas history, Williams sketches a vivid portrait of a truly American legend. Map.
Author : Laurie Cockerell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984560912
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Magnificent Sam written by Laurie Cockerell and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color children's picture book relating the life and adventures of Sam Houston. It follows Sam through his childhood, his life with the Cherokee Indians, his participation in the Texas Revolution and his political presence both in Texas and the United States.
Author : James L. Haley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806152141
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Sam Houston written by James L. Haley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley’s fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly the most complete, most personal, and most readable Sam Houston biography ever written. Drawn from personal papers never before available as well as the papers of others in Houston’s circle, this biography will delight anyone intrigued by Sam Houston, Texas history, Civil War history, or America’s tradition of rugged individualism.
Author : William Seale
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806124360
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Sam Houston's Wife written by William Seale and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Sam Houston has been the subject 6f several biographies and· many historical articles, little attention has been paid to his third wife, whose enormous influence on the Liberator of Texas has never before been examined closely. In this first biography of Margaret Lea Houston, a remarkable woman is finally awakened from the historical sleep which has enveloped her for over a century. Alabama-born Margaret Lea was just a schoolgirl when she first saw Sam Houston arrive at New Orleans after the Battle of San Jacinto to have his wounds tended. "She later described having a premonition that she would some day meet Sam Houston," says· William Seale. "But she told that story many years later, after she had become his wife." For marry Sam Houston she did–in the face of strong opposition of family and friends and of Houston's friends and advisers. Twenty-six years younger than her husband, this protected child of a Baptist minister set out to change the life of the frontier hero. Aware that alcoholism and the sorrows of personal misfortune weighed upon him, she battled the former and sought to alleviate the latter. Her abiding faith in him, coupled with his unceasing devotion to her and to their children, is a central theme of this book. The author explores the personality of Margaret, the idealist whose absorption in religion often led her to melancholia, the reader of romances who was never able to come to terms with the Texas wilderness, the wife who strummed her guitar and wrote love poems during her husband's absences on affairs of state. This account of Sam Houston's wife, which presents details of the general's life not hitherto explored, is in addition a colorful picture of the time in which she lived. It is a realistic appraisal of Sam and Margaret Houston, to which the author has brought a fresh and sympathetic understanding. In writing the richly human story, he has made extensive use of unpublished manuscripts and original documents in private hands and public archives.
Author : Jack Dwain Gregory
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128092
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833 written by Jack Dwain Gregory and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lively effort to pierce the thick fog of Falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the Cherokees in what is now northeastern Oklahoma, the broken years in Tennessee, and his advent in Texas on the eve of the War for Independence.–Virginia Quarterly Review
Author : Heidi Poelman
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1641702281
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Courageous People from Texas Who Changed the World written by Heidi Poelman and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fearless leadership of Sam Houston to the determination of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, Courageous People from Texas Who Changed the World is a young child's first introduction to the brave people from their home state who made a difference. Simple text and adorable illustrations tell the contributions of more than a dozen courageous Texans: Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, the Bush Family, Sandra Day O’Connor, Ann Richards, Buddy Holly, Barbara Jordan, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Vickie Gutierrez, and J. J. Watt. A quote from each hero is included on each spread along with colorful, delightful artwork.
Author : Marshall De Bruhl
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Sword of San Jacinto written by Marshall De Bruhl and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1993 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using new material, the author re-creates Houston as a frontiersman, soldier, and politician, plus his tumultuous personal life.
Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Eakin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781681791920
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Sam Houston written by Bill O'Neal and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780938349846
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)
Download or read book My Master written by Jeff Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of the personal slave of Sam Houston who was with him at his death in 1863.
Author : Alan C. Elliott
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455618705
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Willy the Texas Longhorn written by Alan C. Elliott and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so fast Rudolph-Willy guides Santa's sleigh in Texas! When Santa visits Texas, he encounters dense fog and needs a local's help to deliver gifts. Willy, a longhorn longing to fly with Santa, jumps at the opportunity to help. With the help of glowing blue paint, his horns light the way. Follow Willy and Santa on their journey to every house in the Lone Star State as they fly over Texas landmarks to deliver presents and a Texas-sized portion of cheer.
Author : Patricia Smith Prather
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780929398877
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)
Download or read book From Slave to Statesman written by Patricia Smith Prather and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Houston (1822- 1902) was born on the Temple Lea plantation in Marion, Perry County, Alabama. In 1834 Templeton Lea died and willed Joshua to his daughter, Margaret, as her personal slave. In 1840 Margaret Lea married General Sam Houston and moved to Texas. She took Joshua with her. Joshua faithfully served the Houston family during their many political and financial ups and downs. In 1862 Sam Houston freed his slaves. Joshua elected to remain with the Houston family and took Houston as his surname. In 1866 he homesteaded in Huntsville, Texas, near the Houston family. He became a well-known and respected public figure in Huntsville where he served as city alderman and later served as county commissioner of Wlker County. In 188 he was elected as a delegate to the National Republican Convention from Texas. He was the father of seven or eight children by three different women. Descendants live in Texas.
Author : Ron Rozelle
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Exiled written by Ron Rozelle and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an undisputed record of political achievement—leading the decisive battle for Texas independence at San Jacinto, serving twice as president of the Republic of Texas, twice again as a United States senator after annexation, and finally as governor of Texas—Sam Houston found himself in the winter of his life in a self-imposed exile among the pines of East Texas. Houston was often a bundle of complicated contradictions. He was a spirited advocate for public education but had little formal education himself. He was very much “a Jackson man” but disagreed with his mentor on the treatment of Native Americans. He was a slaveholder who opposed abolition but scuttled his own political reputation by resisting the South’s move toward secession. After refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy in 1861, Houston was swiftly evicted from the governor’s office. “Let me tell you what is coming,” he later said from a window at the Tremont Hotel in Galveston. “After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it.” Houston died just two years later, and the nation was indeed fractured. Ron Rozelle’s masterful biographical portrait here lingers on Houston’s final years, especially as lived out in Huntsville, when so much of his life’s work seemed on the verge of coming undone. Artfully written for the general reader, Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston is a compelling look at Sam Houston’s legacy and twilight years.
Author : Elizabeth Crook
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307833828
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Raven's Bride written by Elizabeth Crook and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1829, Sam Houston was the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, a “beautiful…imperious giant genius of a man,” whose political horizons seemed limitless. The marriage of this charismatic, ambitious statesman to twenty-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of a prominent landholder, seemed to form the perfect social foundation on which Houston would build his glittering career. But just eleven weeks after the wedding, Eliza suddenly and inexplicably left her new husband, creating a scandal that caused the governor to resign his office in disgrace and embark on an exile that would ultimately deliver him to Texas, and a destiny even grander and more improbable than anyone could have imagined. Through decades of rumor and speculation, Sam Houston and Eliza Allen never revealed the source of their unhappiness, and carried the secret with them to their graves. The Raven’s Bride is a brilliantly original novel that unravels this dark romantic mystery while illuminating a vivid and fascinating moment in America’s past. In these pages, Sam Houston is presented as he must have been—a heroic figure (called the Raven by the Cherokee), vain, flamboyant, magnetic, his outsized personality fueled by a desperate need for love. And Eliza Allen is his match: a prideful, magnificent young woman, both drawn to and disturbed by her husband’s grand aspirations. With the investigative acuity of a historian and the profound empathy of a gifted novelist, Elizabeth Crook has created an enthralling portrait of these star-crossed lovers and the vibrant, restless world that brought them together. Richly detailed and splendidly imagined, The Raven’s Bride turns a baffling historical conundrum into a complex and deeply affecting love story.
Author : David A. Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823427482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (274 download)
Download or read book A Picture Book of Daniel Boone written by David A. Adler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurer who blazed trails westward and died in 1820 became part of American lore.
Author : Brian Kilmeade
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525540547
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers written by Brian Kilmeade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue. In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting, American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, along with other Americans who had moved to Texas looking for a fresh start. It was a crushing blow to Texas’s fight for freedom. But the story doesn’t end there. The defeat galvanized the Texian settlers, and under General Sam Houston’s leadership they rallied. Six weeks after the Alamo, Houston and his band of settlers defeated Santa Anna’s army in a shocking victory, winning the independence for which so many had died. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers recaptures this pivotal war that changed America forever, and sheds light on the tightrope all war heroes walk between courage and calculation. Thanks to Kilmeade’s storytelling, a new generation of readers will remember the Alamo—and recognize the lesser known heroes who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738580241
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book San Benito written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Benito was built on the banks of a dry riverbed of the Rio Grande, called a resaca. Long ago, Coahuiltecan Indians made their home here, and Spanish land grant ranches flourished in the 1700s. The arrival of the railroad in 1904 brought a diverse group of pioneers from the Midwest in search of cheap and fertile land. These early settlers, together with descendents of Spanish colonizers, began an agricultural community. During his engineering surveys in 1903 for the proposed railroad connection to the rest of Texas, Sam Robertson realized the potential of the land. He envisioned an irrigation plan that would utilize the resacas to bring water from the Rio Grande and thus make arid ranch land into a garden. It was with this history and this dream that the little town of San Benito was created. San Benito is also home to entertainment--Conjunto Music began here--and it is the hometown of international singing star Freddy Fender and Olympic athlete Bobby Morrow.
