Sam Houston

Samuel Houston, after leaving his second wife and staying in Indian, visited Texas in 1832 and began the most important part of his career as a civil servant. In Texas, I soon joined Texans 'anti-government politics, the representative of Nacogdoches' representative held in San Felipe in 1833, where he and the extremists led by William H. Wharton lined up In November 1835. He was appointed Major General of the Texas Army.Transitional Government and John Forbes negotiate a treaty with East Texas Cherokee Indians to establish him peace in this regard I ordered.

This book started with a short story about Sam Houston's grandfather, Robert Houston, settled in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and began plantation called Timber Ridge. Plantation Born on March 2, 1793, Samuel Houston is the fifth of the nine children born in Sam and Elizabeth Houston. The way Sam Houston's father worshiped the military life led people to ignore the farm and finally the fiscal struggle. To alleviate family economic problems, he decided to sell the rest of his family's farmland and went west to Tennessee with his wife and nine children. But before his departure West died he died and in 1807 the Houston family decided to move to Tennessee.

The young Sam Houston was 14 years old when he moved to the west. He does not like to go to school, he is bored and dislikes agriculture. When his family was interested in the store, Houston was instructed to work there as a staff member. Even he dislikes clerical work rather than farm work, and shortly after he disappeared. Houston decided to live with Cherokee Indians and talked to his family "red wild liberty is much better than Caucasian settlement limit." John Jolly liked the young Houston very much, he adopted him and named India. In the relationship between Sam Houston and the Indians, he will bring gifts to his Indian friends and family who appreciate local businessmen. In order to bring in income, 19 year old Houston opened a school and earned enough money to pay off his debt.