Star of destiny the private life of Sam and Margaret Houston
As the great-great-granddaughter of Sam Houston and Margaret Lea, Madge Thornall Roberts played in her great-grandparents home in Independence, Texas, which had Santa Anna s saddle in the upstairs hall, the San Jacinto sword over the mantle, and where she kept her doll s clothes in an old chest of M...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Texas :
University of North Texas Press
[1993]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434520706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction xiii
- Chapter I-I have a strange feeling that someday I shall meet this man. 1
- Chapter 2-Last nightI gazed long upon our beauteous emblem, the star of destiny. 17
- Chapter 3-My mind fixes itself on the bright hour in which we first met and loved. 35
- Chapter 4-The gay voice of his wife, mingling with tones of her harp and piano, was heard. 61
- Chapter 5-She would have graced the household of any man, be he president or prince. 93
- Chapter 6-Alas, what has always been my decision when my own happiness or the good of the country was to be sacrificed? 111
- Chapter 7-He has decided [I] must be operated on ... I hope to sit down to it like a soldier. 141
- Chapter 8-I am where it is said the world is, and yet I am far from all that constitutes my world on earth. 155
- Chapter 9-Last night as I came home ... I saw our "Star." 181
- Chapter 10-I am gratified to see that you are homesick and weary of public life. 203
- Chapter 11 -If his affection had been equal to mine, could he have left me? 225
- Chapter 12-There is everywhere a void which nothing can fill, but the presence of my darling husband. 251
- Chapter 13-Do you know I am more in love with you than I ever was in my life? 269
- Chapter 14-In the still watches of the night, I hear him agonizing in prayer for our distracted country. 285
- Chapter 15-1 have no spirit to write...on account of my deep affliction from my dear boy being sent to Mississippi. 307
- Chapter 16-When the great sorrow first fell ... I could not see how [to] guide my little flock through the dreary wilderness. 331
- Epilogue--[She was a woman] of character, culture and staunch devotion ... [who] greatly influenced Sam Houston and the course of Texas history. 357
- Appendixes 369
- Bibliography 405
- Index 419.
