The Texas that might have been : Sam Houston's foes write to Albert Sidney Johnston / collected by Margaret Swett Henson ; edited and with an introduction by Donald E. Willett.

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9781603443715

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Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862 -- Correspondence

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Electronic Books.

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F390 .T493 2009

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"All that emanates from him is falsehood upon deceit": the Houston years, 1842-1845 -- "So let it be": statehood and secession, 1846-1861 -- Appendix: chronological list of the letters -- Notes to preface and introductions.

Subject: 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 Sidney Johnston, is the subject of this fascinating edition of letters from the period. Donald E. Willett offers new annotation and analysis to these letters from Johnston?s colleagues, friends, and supporters?first collected and edited by contrarian scholar Margaret Swett Henson, but never before published.--Amazon.com.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

"The glorious excitement of uncertainty": the Lamar years, 1838-1841 -- "All that emanates from him is falsehood upon deceit": the Houston years, 1842-1845 -- "So let it be": statehood and secession, 1846-1861 -- Appendix: chronological list of the letters -- Notes to preface and introductions.

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 Sidney Johnston, is the subject of this fascinating edition of letters from the period. Donald E. Willett offers new annotation and analysis to these letters from Johnston?s colleagues, friends, and supporters?first collected and edited by contrarian scholar Margaret Swett Henson, but never before published.--Amazon.com.

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