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The Raven : a biography of Sam Houston / by Marquis James ; introduction by Henry Steel Commager.
LIBRA F390 .H8494 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Marquis, 1891-1955
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
- Houston, Sam.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Governors--Texas--Biography.
- Governors.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 489 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- "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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 437-457.
- ISBN:
- 0292770405
- OCLC:
- 84370406
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