The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston (The American Past)

xv, 489 pp. 1990 reissue of 1929 original, with a new introduction by Robert M. Utley, and illustrations for this edition selected by Joan Paterson Kerr. Original red cloth, gilt titles & decorations, color illustrated endpapers, glossy color illustrations selected for this edition. A biography of Sam Houston, the statesman involved in the United States colonization of Texas (and after whom the city is named).