Senin, 09 Januari 2017

As Big as Texas: Sam Houston

Victory at San Jacinto secured independence from Mexico and made him a hero, but he faced countless trials and tribulations—before and after. Inside what many considered the ugliest house in the state of Texas, Sam Houston lay dying. Not in his bedroom, though. In midsummer the upstairs of the “Steamboat House” in Huntsville felt like …

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