Sam Houston

by James L. Haley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806136448
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	10/28/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.22(d)

About the Author

James L. Haley is an independent scholar living in Austin, Texas. He is the author of numerous books, including The Buffalo War: The History of the Red River Indian Uprising of 1874 and Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait (OU Press).

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	IX
	Preface	XI
	Acknowledgments	XXI
1.	The Runaway Grocery Boy	3
2.	The Indian Agent	18
3.	The Political Protege	31
4.	Spliced to a Rib	47
5.	The Most Unhappy Man Now Living	62
6.	From Stanbery to Texas	81
7.	A Much Deeper Game than Faro	98
8.	The Morning of Glory	111
9.	The Runaway Scrape	128
10.	The Laurels of Victory	143
11.	The Barnyard Republic	166
12.	Houston, as They Call the New City	187
13.	Interregnum	209
14.	Not a Dollar in the Treasury	233
15.	The Talleyrand of the Brazos	264
16.	The Barbarian Senator	292
17.	Sectional Madness	334
18.	The Last Almost of a Race	361
19.	All Is Well	395
	Afterword	423
	Notes	425
	Bibliography	485
	Index	495