Sam Houston

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Biography & Memoir, Political
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Author: James L. Haley ISBN: 9780806152141
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Publication: April 10, 2015
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press Language: English
Author: James L. Haley
ISBN: 9780806152141
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication: April 10, 2015
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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