The Raven; :
James, Marquis
The Raven; : a biography of Sam Houston, / by Marquis James. - Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Co., ©1929. - 489 p. : frontispiece, ill. (facsimile) plates, portrait, maps (1 double) ; 23 cm.
With hard-and supercover
Includes index
"This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semilegendary characters--with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen. . . . In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers; in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him." --from the introduction by Henry Steele Commager.
Houston, Sam 1793-1863
The Raven; : a biography of Sam Houston, / by Marquis James. - Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Co., ©1929. - 489 p. : frontispiece, ill. (facsimile) plates, portrait, maps (1 double) ; 23 cm.
With hard-and supercover
Includes index
"This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semilegendary characters--with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen. . . . In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers; in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him." --from the introduction by Henry Steele Commager.
Houston, Sam 1793-1863