TY - BOOK AU - Johnston,Albert Sidney AU - Henson,Margaret Swett AU - Willett,Donald TI - The Texas that might have been: Sam Houston's foes write to Albert Sidney Johnston T2 - Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the South and Southwest SN - 9781603443715 AV - F390 .T493 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - College Station PB - Texas A and M University Press KW - Johnston, Albert Sidney, KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; "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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=514569&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -