Research Catalog

Title

• Sam Houston : the great designer / Llerena Friend.

Author

Friend, Llerena, 1903-

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1969, c1954.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 394 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

This biography of Sam Houston goes beyond the romantic frontier life of the "buckskin hero from Tennessee" to examine seriously his role as an American statesman. (Publisher).

Series Statement

• Texas history paperbacks ; TH-2

Subject

• 1810-1821
• Geschichte 1800-1870
• Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
• Legislators > United States > Biography
• Politicians > Texas > Biography
• Texas > History
• Texas > History > 1810-1821
• Texas > Politics and government

Genre/Form

Biographie.

Note

• "Under a similar title and in only a slightly different form, this biography ... was prepared as a doctoral dissertation in history at the University of Texas" -- p. vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 357-368.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Tennessee background -- The Indian interlude -- Opportunist in Texas -- General Houston -- Houston's Republic -- More coy than forward: diplomacy of annexation -- Senator Houston of Texas -- Alone in the Senate -- Aspirations to the presidency -- For love of the Union.

OCLC

11325116

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library