Sam Houston, the Great Designer

List of contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 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
• Bibliography
• Index

About the author

Llerena B. Friend (1903–1995) was a historian and teacher.

Product details

• Authors: Llerena Friend
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1954
• EAN: 9780292784222
• ISBN: 978-0-292-78422-2
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Series: University of Texas Press; Texas History Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies