Kamis, 04 Januari 2018

Encounter: Sam Houston Meets Alexis de Tocqueville

Sam Houston’s wife left him 10 weeks after their wedding in 1829 and returned to her rich father’s plantation. Houston, who was 36 years old and governor of Tennessee at the time, wrote a rambling letter to his father-in-law that contained this heart-breaking sentence: “She was cold to me, & I thought she did not …

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