Sam Houston
Subtitle: Colossus In Buckskin
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781417916245
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography: historical; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - U.S.
First sentence: BETWEEN Hernando de Soto, first to blaze a trail through the wildernesses of the New World, and Kit Carson, last of the great frontiersmen, streams an endless procession of tremendous figures-Homeric in courage and achievement, flaming hugely against the dull background of uniformity; yet not in the whole colorful story of America is there record of a more amazing career than that of Sam Houston, the Colossus in buckskin who won an empire for his country.