Sam Houston /
In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. The author explores Houston's momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley's fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly the most compl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2002]
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| Online Access: | Book review (H-Net) |
| Summary: | In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. The author 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-493) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0806134054 9780806134055 9780806136448 0806136448 |