Download or read book Personal Papers of Sam Houston written by Sam Houston and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence, reports, financial documents and one legal notice compose the Personal papers of Sam Houston. Of three letters sent by him, two are autograph copies and only one is signed. Correspondents include Joseph L. Bennet, Eber Worthington Cave, John Forbes, James Hawkins, M.T. Johnson, Philip Martin, Benjamin McCulloch, James Hazard Perry, Robert Potter, Thomas J. Rusk, William Read Scurry, Ashbel Smith and William Stanhope. Many letters and other memoranda record first person accounts of the Battle of San Jacinto. An August 28, 1857 newspaper clipping from the Galveston News records a contrary account of the battle by Capt. Jesse Billingsley. One report is a handwritten transcription of a speech made by a Comanche Chief in 1846. Typed transcripts of letters are separated from the originals and arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Transcripts of reports are also arranged in a separate sub-series.

Download or read book The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston 1839 1845 written by Sam Houston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of Sam Houston?s personal correpondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston. This volume begins March 6, 1846, as Houston leaves Texas to take his place in the U. S. Senate. Included in his letters are comments on national politics and life in Washington, D. C., descriptions of politicians and their wives, and his observations on generals of the Mexican War. New information sheds light on his feelings towards being a candidate for the presidency. Family letters give a picture of life on Texas plantations during the mid-1800s. The letters end August 10, 1848, after problems with Oregon have begun and the Mexican War has ended.

Download or read book The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston 1846 1848 written by Sam Houston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of Sam Houston's personal correspondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston, covering the time 1846 to 1848. "Writing to people he knew and assuming confidentiality, Houston was unrestrained in his candor in discussing affairs of state and other aspects of his life and career. . . . "--AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN.

Download or read book The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston 1852 1863 written by Sam Houston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet The long awaited final volume in the set Volume IV of this series brings to a close nearly ten years of research & publication of Sam Houston's correspondence. Includes a comprehensive index of all four volumes.

Download or read book The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston 1848 1852 written by Sam Houston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet Third in the series of previously unpublished personal letters, beginning in the fall of 1848 when Houston returns to Washington for the Second Session of the Thirtieth Congress after the close of the Mexican War.

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.

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Sam Houston written by Sam Houston and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1954 with total page 358 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.

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