Sam Houston Haley, James L. creator author. text bibliography biography History Biographies Biographies. Biographies. oku 2004 First paperback edition. monographic eng print xxii, 513 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm "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" -- Publisher description. The Runaway Grocery Boy -- The Indian Agent -- The Political Protege -- Spliced to a Rib -- The Most Unhappy Man Now Living -- From Stanbery to Texas -- A Much Deeper Game than Faro -- The Morning of Glory -- The Runaway Scrape -- The Laurels of Victory -- The Barnyard Republic -- Houston, as They Call the New City -- Interregnum -- Not a Dollar in the Treasury -- The Talleyrand of the Brazos -- The Barbarian Senator -- Sectional Madness -- The Last Almost of a Race. James L. Haley. Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-493) and index. n-us-tx n-us--- Houston, Sam 1793-1863 United States. Congress. Senate Biography États-Unis. Congress. Senate Biographies Houston, Sam 1793-1863 United States. Congress. Senate. Biography Houston, Sam 1793-1863 United States. Congress. Senate Governors Texas Biography Legislators United States Biography Texas History To 1846 Parlementaires États-Unis Biographies Texas Histoire Jusqu'à 1846 Legislators United States Biography Texas History To 1846 Governors Legislators Texas United States To 1846 fast F390.H84 H34 2004 976.4/04/092 B 0806134054 9780806134055 0806136448 9780806136448 2001045108 TAG TAGC OKU 041109 20240808225437.5 in00004817741 eng