Sam Houston lived a unique and exciting life. He was the only person to be president of a republic, a United States senator, and the governor of two different states. Houston was a leader in winning T
Fort Sam Houston has been San Antonio's Army post since 1845. Originally located in the city, elements of the post began moving to Government Hill in 1876. Fort Sam Houston became one of America's mos
"Examines the life of Sam Houston, including his early life on the Western frontier, his time as a soldier, leading the fight for Texas' independence, and his political career in Texas"--Provided by p
Thirty years after its founding in 1876, Fort Sam Houston was the nation’s largest Army post. Generals Pershing and Eisenhower were among hundreds of thousands of soldiers stationed there. Fort Sam ho
Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsville, Texas, was Houston's personal body servant during the period Houston was U.S. Senator, during both
Governor of two states, president of an independent republic, and for thirteen years a United States senator, Sam Houston forged a life of great adventures, frequent controversy, and lasting achievem
A biography profiling the life of Sam Houston, the hero of the Texas Revolution who led Texas through its turbulent early years, and helped it secure statehood in 1845. Includes source notes and timel
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
Text and pictures introduce the biography of Sam Houston, who served as governor of Texas after helping fight for the region's independence from Mexico.
In 1836, determined to avenge her father's death at the Alamo, a twelve-year-old girl sets out across Texas alone gathering support for Sam Houston in the fight against Mexico's General Santa Anna.
Volume IV of this series brings to a close nearly ten years of research and publication of Sam Houston’s correspondence by Madge Thornall Roberts and the University of North Texas Press. As befitting
Volume III of Sam Houston’s personal correspondence continues the projected four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston. This volume begins in the fall of 184
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
In the April, 1971, issue of Southwestern Historical Quarterly , historian Llerena Friend wrote that there was a need for a new editing of Houston correspondence” to complement the eight-v
Sam Houston has come to personify the spirit of the Texas Revolution, and yet the details of his life with the Cherokee Indians have remained obscure. In the more than fifty biographies of Sam Houston
"This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semilegendary characterswith Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp F
This book is a rhetorical study of the writings of Republic of Texas presidents Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar. The author analyzes the frames applied in Houston and Lamar’s writings to define N