Publisher Fact Sheet Third in the series of previously unpublished personal letters, beginning in the fall of 1848 when Houston returns to Washington for the Second Session of the Thirtieth Congress after the close of the Mexican War.
Madge Roberts has gathered these documents together again and, along with other Houston letters and interviews, woven them into the story of the Houstons’ marriage.
Hume took the matter up with the Reverend Obadiah Jennings, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, and together they declined, “on good grounds, as we think.” More to the point was the fact that Obadiah Jennings was the ...
Artfully written for the general reader, Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston is a compelling look at Sam Houston’s legacy and twilight years.
Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The 1860 Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010. Crum, Tom. “Folklorization of the Battle of Pease River.” West Texas Historical Association Year Book 72 (1996): 69-85.
Her abiding faith in him, coupled with his unceasing devotion to her and to their children, is a central theme of this book.
Ph.D. diss . , University of California , Berkeley , 1972 . Glenn , Virginia Louise . ... Ph.D. dissertation , University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill , 1964. ... Green , Edwin L. George McDuffie . Columbia , S.C .
With engaging text, extensive quotations, and more than 100 striking photographs, this volume captures the world of the iconic Texas Revolutionary.
Texas Border Troubles, 4; Rayburn and Rayburn, Century of Conflict, 68; Parisot, Reminiscences ofa Texas Missionary, 97—98; Rankin, Twenty Years among the Mexicans, 81-82. 17. Texas Border Troubles, 4; Thompson, Fifty Miles and a Fight, ...
12, New York Daily-Times, June 3, 1854, in Papers ofOlmsted, 2:305—6. 19. Melvin Kalfus, Frederick Law Olmsted: The Passion of a Public Artist (New York: New York University Press, 1990), 166. 20. “The South,” No.
I also frequently turned to Sam Houston: The Great Designer by Llerena B. Friend (University of Texas Press, ... Clements Monday (University of North Texas Press, 1995); The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: Volume IV, 1852–1863, ...