WITH SAM HOUSTON
IN TEXAS
The American Trail Blazers
“THE STORY GRIPS AND THE HISTORY STICKS”
These books present in the form of vivid and fascinatingfiction, the early and adventurous phases of Americanhistory. Each volume deals with the life and adventuresof one of the great men who made that history, or withsome one great event in which, perhaps, several heroiccharacters were involved. The stories, though based uponaccurate historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramaticaction, and appeal to the imagination of the red-bloodedman or boy.
Each volume illustrated in color and black and white.
- INTO MEXICO WITH GENERAL SCOTT
- LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE
- GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES
- OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
- WITH CARSON AND FRÉMONT
- DANIEL BOONE: BACKWOODSMAN
- BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL
- CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
- DAVID CROCKETT: SCOUT
- ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER
- GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49
- WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS
- WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON INTO THE WILDERNESS
- IN THE RANKS OF OLD HICKORY
WITH
SAM HOUSTON
IN TEXAS
A BOY VOLUNTEER IN THE TEXAS STRUGGLES FOR INDEPENDENCE,WHEN IN THE YEARS 1835–1836 THE TEXASCOLONISTS THREW OFF THE UNJUST RULE OF MEXICO,AND BY HEROIC DEEDS ESTABLISHED, UNDER THE GUIDANCEOF THE BLUFF SAM HOUSTON, THEIR OWN FREEREPUBLIC WHICH TO-DAY IS THE GREAT LONE STAR STATE
BY
AUTHOR OF “ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER,” “BUFFALO BILL
AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL,” ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
PORTRAIT AND MAPS
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
SEVENTH IMPRESSION
PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE
AMERICAN SPIRIT OF FREEDOM
AND ITS STARS
in the American Flag