The Texas That Might Have Been : Sam Houston's Foes Write to Albert Sidney Johnston.
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- 9781603443715
- 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
- 976.4/04
- F390 -- .T44 2009eb
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Inroduction -- Inroduction -- The Lamar Years, 1838-1841 -- The Houston Years, 1842-1845 -- Statehood and Secession 1846-1861 -- Appendix -- Notes to Preface and Introductions -- Index.
Although Sam Houston would eventually emerge as the dominant shaper of the developing Texas Republic's destiny, many visions competed for preeminence. One of Houston's sharpest critics, Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston, is the subject of this fascinating edition of letters from the period.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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