Bibliograph

Sam Houston

Type

Label

Sam Houston

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sam Houston

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

A Robbie Reader. What's so great about--?

Summary

Sam Houston is remembered in the name of a major city in the place he loved-Texas. Not only did he defeat Santa Anna s army to free Texas from Mexico, he worked hard to make the Republic of Texas a state and, as the Civil War loomed, to keep it in the Union. He served as president of the Republic of Texas, and then as a senator and governor of the state of Texas. But that s not all. Before Andrew Jackson sent him to Texas, Houston had already been successful as a congressman and governor of Tennessee, and as a self-appointed advocate for the Cherokee Indians. He had fought bravely in the War of 1812 at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Read all about this amazingly practical man who, above all else, heeded his mother s advice to live a life of honor

Target audience

juvenile

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