TY - BOOK AU - James,Marquis TI - The Raven;: a biography of Sam Houston, PY - 1929/// CY - Indianapolis PB - The Bobbs-Merrill Co. KW - Houston, Sam N1 - With hard-and supercover; Includes index N2 - "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 ER -