Desert Hawk Books

Sam Houston

by James L. Haley

 

544 pages
Hard Cover

Quantity:   $39.95& S/H  

 

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 and from the papers of those 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.

"Sam Houston was on of those figures, like Daniel Boone, whose astonishing life actually matched the legends that have grown around him. This is biography in the grand style, splendidly researched, written with spirit: it is now the beginning point for all future discussion." -Elliot West, author of The Contested Plains

"This richly detailed biography may be the best look we have of that grizzly bear of a man." -True West

"Haley's life of Houston is a good read, solidly evoking the prickly personality of the first and greatest Texan." -Publishers Weekly

"Using an amazing array of primary sources materials, Haley explores a more personal angle, looking at what made Houston tick - Library Journal