Author

Contributions

  • Strickland, Rennard. - Contributor

Publication

1996 - University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma

Language

English

Word Count

51,500 words, Guess

Page Count

206 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL808184M
  • ISBN-100806128097
  • OCLC Control Number33277549
  • Library of Congress Control Number95044919
  • LibraryThing491443
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  • Goodreads1623108

Classifications

  • DDC976.4/04/092
  • LCCF390.H84 G74 1996
  • LCCF390.H84G74 1996

Description

"Sam Houston has come to personify the spirit of the Texas Revolution, and yet the details of his life with the Cherokee Indians have remained obscure. In the more than fifty biographies of Sam Houston, only slight reference is made to the years (1829-1833) that Houston spent with the Cherokees. To reconstruct these years the authors have examined numerous resources, including Indian agency records, Congressional documents, contemporary diaries, and unpublished letters, as well as Houston's letters and speeches. The authors scrutinize Houston's role as Indian trader, advocate in Washington of Cherokee rights, and negotiator with the Plains Indian tribes. They offer proof of Houston's marriage to the Cherokee Diana Rogers and debunk the legend that he spent the years with the Cherokees in drunken debauchery"--Back cover.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryCherokee IndiansHouston, sam, 1793-1863Relations with Cherokee IndiansIndians of north america, southern statesCherokee Indians -- History -- 19th centuryHouston, Sam, 1793-1863 -- Relations with Cherokee Indians

Times

Other Editions

  • Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833University of Oklahoma Press1996-01-01

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