Download or read book The Raven s Honor a Sam Houston Story written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. The hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, he had defeated Santa Anna to win independence for Texas back in 1836. He had twice served as president of the Republic of Texas, helped Texas join the Union, and served as senator and governor of Texas. Before settling in Texas, he had been a hero of the Creek War and governor of Tennessee. He had been friends with Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett, and had been adopted into the Cherokee tribe, whose rights he had often defended and who had named him The Raven.
Download or read book The Raven s Honor written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. The hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, he had defeated Santa Anna to win independence for Texas back in 1836. He had twice served as president of the Republic of Texas, helped Texas join the Union, and served as senator and governor of Texas. Before settling in Texas, he had been a hero of the Creek War and governor of Tennessee. He had been friends with Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett, and had been adopted into the Cherokee tribe, whose rights he had often defended and who had named him the Raven. Yet now, approaching seventy years of hard living, he finds everything he has fought for being torn asunder. Texas is joining the Confederacy, and Houston, a Unionist who has been cast out as governor, quickly loses power, prestige, and friends. He could hide in retirement, but such is not the way of a warrior. The Raven prepares for his most important fight yet. He knows this battle will test his endurance and faith. He knows he will need his wife, Margaret, to save him from his own worst enemy-himself. And he knows this war, which will pit brother against brother, will also try to divide Houston's family. What he doesn't know yet is that he will find help from long-dead friends and enemies to help him sort out his life and restore his honor. Johnny D. Boggs, among the most honored Western writers of the twenty-first century, brings one of Texas' greatest heroes to life, warts and all, in a character study and love story of a man fighting for his country and legacy-but mostly for his family.
Download or read book The Raven written by Marquis James and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semilegendary characters-- with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen.... In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers; in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him." -- from the introduction by Henry Steele Commager
Download or read book HIStory The Raven written by Jasper Snellings and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HIStory The Raven, Early Life of Sam Houston" was created due to my interest in and kinship with Sam Houston, my 2nd cousin 5 times removed. My lineage extends to Sam Houston through the Paxton family. Jasper Lafayette Snellings', my dad, my side of the family tree extends upward to Thomas and Elizabeth (McLung) Paxton. Thomas (my 5th Great Grandfather) and Sam Houston's Grandfather (John Paxton) were brothers. The series was developed to assist a friend in publishing a historical periodical and she urged me to compile it into this book about the life of the only man who ever was a U.S. Congressman, Senator and Governor of 2 States, and President of a Republic. Enjoy! Jasper Snellings
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
Download or read book The Raven A Biography of Sam Houston Illustrated written by Marquis James and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raven a Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James written by Marquis James and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Raven A Biography of Sam Houston Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by Marquis JAMES and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sam Houston the Great Designer written by Llerena Friend and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Sam Houston goes beyond the romantic frontier life of the "buckskin hero from Tennessee" to examine seriously his role as an American statesman.
Download or read book Sam Houston s Texas written by Sue Flanagan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With engaging text, extensive quotations, and more than 100 striking photographs, this volume captures the world of the iconic Texas Revolutionary. When Sam Houston crossed the Red River for the first time in 1832, he termed Texas the “finest portion of the Globe that has ever blessed my vision.” His diplomatic, military, political, and personal activities took him all over what is now the eastern half of the state—and he fell in love with every foot of it. With panoramic vision and broad descriptive power, he expressed his lasting affection for the country in everything he said and wrote. Having followed the trail of every trip he made in Texas, Sue Flanagan presents the Texas Houston knew—through his picturesque language and her own evocative photographs. The face of Texas east of San Antonio is pictured in all its varied features. With great discernment, Flanagan captures the landscapes, buildings, and objects in the most revealing light and in the best atmospheric conditions. These spots in nature which Houston saw, these objects which he knew, these houses where he was entertained and where he lived—all are tangible reminders of “this colorful, cagey, and controversial man,” this Texas hero whose life was a tragedy in divided loyalties.
Download or read book The American Story written by Earl Schenck Miers and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Arkansas A History written by Harry S. Ashmore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1978-04-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South and West, delta and mountains, black and white, rich and poor, Arkansas is a complex state whose history has not been widely understood. In this graceful and good-humored account, author Harry S. Ashmore takes us on an instructive journey over the state's fascinating terrain and offers important new insights into Arkansas's historical character. Arkansas lies west of the Mississippi River and has shared much with that vast western region. Yet it also joined the Confederate States of America and has prided itself on its southern heritage. In the early nineteenth century, Arkansas was little removed from its wilderness beginnings, but the Indians who first made its hills and forests their home soon learned that the white man's frontier meant their demise. Later in the antebellum era, the young state searched for a sense of identity, covering with a patina of gentility the energy and violence that was characteristic of frontier America. The Civil War and Reconstruction brought both suffering and freedom and for the future left a mixed legacy. In the last hundred years, Arkansans struggled with old problems in a new context--race, cotton, sharecropping, and a colonial economy--and they discovered anew the need for hard work and good faith. On rich delta plantations and spare upland farms, in small towns and in cities like Little Rock and Fort Smith, the plain people of this state applied themselves to the pursuit of prosperity and hoped for a richer near future for their children.
Download or read book Texas the Lone Star State written by Rupert Norval Richardson and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1970 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raven and the Redbird written by Raven Hail and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1001 Texas Place Names written by Fred Tarpley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Notrees to Pine Island, from Scotland to Moscow, from Dickens to Tennyson, from Spur to Lariat, from Buck Naked to Bald Prairie—Texans are unsurpassed for the imaginative names they give their towns and cities. Fred Tarpley has chosen 1001 of the most unusual and interesting of the 75,000 place names that dot the Texas map. The names of Texas communities and places can be traced to a number of basic sources, including people; landscapes; the Bible; literature and mythology; misunderstandings and errors; backward spellings and blends; and anecdotes and events. Each entry in 1001 Texas Place Names gives the official spelling of the name, phonetic pronunciation where necessary, dates of post office operation, and a short narrative about the origin of the name and the history of the place. Each of Texas's 254 counties is represented by at least two entries.
