The Texas that might have been
Subtitle: Sam Houston's foes write to Albert Sidney Johnston
By: collected by Margaret Swett Henson ; edited and with an introduction by Donald E. Willett.
Contributors: Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862.; Henson, Margaret Swett, 1924-2001.; Willett, Donald.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the South and Southwest -- no. 33; Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest -- no. 33.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781603441452
Subjects: Love, James, -- 1795-1874 -- Correspondence; Houston, Sam, -- 1793-1863 -- Adversaries -- Correspondence; Johnston, Albert Sidney, -- 1803-1862 -- Correspondence; Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte, -- 1798-1859; Texas -- Officials and employees -- Correspondence; Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846; Texas -- History -- 1846-1950
Genres: Correspondence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The glorious excitement of uncertainty": the Lamar years, 1838-1841; title: "All that emanates from him is falsehood upon deceit": the Houston years, 1842-1845; title: "So let it be": statehood and secession, 1846-1861; title: Appendix: chronological list of the letters; title: Notes to preface and introductions.