Sam Houston

Sam Houston
ISBN-10
0806152141
ISBN-13
9780806152141
Series
Sam Houston
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
544
Language
English
Published
2015-04-10
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Author
James L. Haley

Description

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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