Journal of Southern History, February 1st, 2001
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 p...
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