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The Autobiography of Sam Houston

Author : Sam Houston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Sam Houston written by Sam Houston and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 360 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.--Amazon.com.

Sam Houston

Author : John Hoyt Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671880713
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)

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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.

Sam Houston

Author : James L. Haley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806152141
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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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.

The Autobiography of Sam Houston. [1st Ed. ].

Author : Sam Houston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598238788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Sam Houston. [1st Ed. ]. written by Sam Houston and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sam Houston's Wife

Author : William Seale
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806124360
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (243 download)

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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.

The Autobiography of Sam Houston

Author : Harry Herbert Ullom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Sam Houston written by Harry Herbert Ullom and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Make Way for Sam Houston

Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698116461
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Make Way for Sam Houston written by Jean Fritz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-07-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful Sam Houston leaps to life in the pages of this fresh and funny biography, set against the story of Texas's fight for independence from Mexico. "Lively, readable, and solidly researched, this is the kind of biography every child needs." —Booklist, starred review "Jean Fritz has done it again. Her writing turns this larger-than-life character into a very real person." —School Library Journal, starred review "Young readers will find the book fast-paced and fact-packed." — The New York Times Book Review Jean Fritz lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Sam Houston and the American Southwest

Author : Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Sam Houston and the American Southwest written by Randolph B. Campbell and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography, Randolph B. Campbell explores the life of Sam Houston and his important role in the development of the Southwest. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography Series focus on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

The Life of Sam Houston

Author : Charles Edwards Lester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Sam Houston written by Charles Edwards Lester and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Autobiography of Sam Houston

Author : Sam Houston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Sam Houston written by Sam Houston and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Slave to Statesman

Author : Patricia Smith Prather
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780929398877
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)

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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.

The Raven

Author : Marquis James
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292770409
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Raven written by Marquis James and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1988-08 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of Houston's diverse careers that sheds light upon his heroism, romanticism, and contributions to the Republic of Texas

Sleuthing the Alamo

Author : James E. Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195184084
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Sleuthing the Alamo written by James E. Crisp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past two centuries. Beginning with a very personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that he encountered in the Texas of his youth, Crisp traces his path to the discovery of documents distorted, censored, and ignored--documents which reveal long-silenced voices from the Texan past. In each of four chapters focusing on specific documentary "finds," Crisp uncovers the clues that led to these archival discoveries. Along the way, the cast of characters expands to include: a prominent historian who tried to walk away from his first book; an unlikely teenaged "speechwriter" for General Sam Houston; three eyewitnesses to the death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo; a desperate inmate of Mexico City's Inquisition Prison, whose scribbled memoir of the war in Texas is now listed in the Guiness Book of World Records; and the stealthy slasher of the most famous historical painting in Texas. In his afterword, Crisp explores the evidence behind the mythic "Yellow Rose of Texas" and examines some of the powerful forces at work in silencing the very voices from the past that we most need to hear today. Here then is an engaging first-person account of historical detective work, illuminating the methods of the serious historian--and the motives of those who prefer glorious myth to unflattering truth.

Exiled

Author : Ron Rozelle
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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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.

Temple Houston

Author : Glenn Shirley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806141312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Temple Houston written by Glenn Shirley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively biography of Sam Houston's illustrious son The youngest son of General Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston, Temple Lea Houston lived his comparatively short life fast and hard. From 1881 to 1905, he was one of the Southwest's most brilliant, eccentric, and widely known criminal lawyers. This is the story of Temple Houston's decision to give up a political future in Texas, escape the shadow of his famous father, and seek fame and fortune in Oklahoma Territory. In several high-profile cases, Houston earned fame as a silver-tongued defense attorney. His clients were murderers, cattle thieves, gunfighters, and prostitutes. The writer Edna Ferber later immortalized Houston by using him as the model for Yancey Cravat, the glittering hero of her novel Cimarron. This carefully researched biography is enriched with lively narratives of the colorful events and characters that brightened territorial days. A vivid story colorfully told, Temple Houston is western Americana at its best.

Sam Houston

Author : Tracey Boraas
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736845113
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Sam Houston written by Tracey Boraas and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Sam Houston, including his early life with the Cherokee Indians, his political career in Washington, D.C., and his role in the history of Texas.

Ross Sterling, Texan

Author : Ross S. Sterling
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773471
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Ross Sterling, Texan written by Ross S. Sterling and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of his generation. Driven by a relentless work ethic, he become a wealthy oilman, banker, newspaper publisher, and, from 1931 to 1933, one-term governor of Texas. Sterling was the principal founder of the Humble Oil and Refining Company, which eventually became the largest division of the ExxonMobil Corporation, as well as the owner of the Houston Post. Eager to "preserve a narrative record of his life and deeds," Ross Sterling hired Ed Kilman, an old friend and editorial page editor of the Houston Post, to write his biography. Though the book was nearly finished before Sterling's death in 1949, it never found a publisher due to Kilman's florid writing style and overly hagiographic portrayal of Sterling. In this volume, by contrast, editor Don Carleton uses the original oral history dictated by Ross Sterling to Ed Kilman to present the former governor's life story in his own words. Sterling vividly describes his formative years, early business ventures, and active role in developing the Texas oil industry. He also recalls his political career, from his appointment to the Texas Highway Commission to his term as governor, ending with his controversial defeat for reelection by "Ma" Ferguson. Sterling's reminiscences constitute an important primary source not only on the life of a Texan who deserves to be more widely remembered, but also on the history of Houston and the growth of the American oil industry.