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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston.
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Journal of Southern History
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February 1, 2001
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2001 Southern Historical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston. Volume III: 1848-1852. Edited by Madge Thornall Roberts. (Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, c. 1999. Pp. viii, 508. $32.50, ISBN 1-57441-063-6.)
Sam Houston usually appears in history dressed in Indian costume, wandering aimlessly from place to place, never satisfied with the here and now, holding true to some American myth of the frontier. Houston the big drunk, the military hero, and the sly politician dominate the popular imagination. Madge Thornall Roberts persistently shows us another side of the man in her third volume of the personal correspondence of Houston and his wife Margaret. These letters speak of ...
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