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This is a life-and-times biography of Captain Andrew Smyth, whose
life spanned the history of Texas river transportation and commerce
from the 1830s to the 1770s.
Although Sam Houston has been the subject 6f several biographies
and- many historical articles, little attention has been paid to
his third wife, whose enormous influence on the Liberator of Texas
has never before been examined closely. In this first biography of
Margaret Lea Houston, a remarkable woman is finally awakened from
the historical sleep which has enveloped her for over a
century.
Alabama-born Margaret Lea was just a schoolgirl when she first
saw Sam Houston arrive at New Orleans after the Battle of San
Jacinto to have his wounds tended. "She later described having a
premonition that she would some day meet Sam Houston," says-
William Seale. "But she told that story many years later, after she
had become his wife."
For marry Sam Houston she did-in the face of strong opposition
of family and friends and of Houston's friends and advisers.
Twenty-six years younger than her husband, this protected child of
a Baptist minister set out to change the life of the frontier hero.
Aware that alcoholism and the sorrows of personal misfortune
weighed upon him, she battled the former and sought to alleviate
the latter.
Her abiding faith in him, coupled with his unceasing devotion to
her and to their children, is a central theme of this book. The
author explores the personality of Margaret, the idealist whose
absorption in religion often led her to melancholia, the reader of
romances who was never able to come to terms with the Texas
wilderness, the wife who strummed her guitar and wrote love poems
during her husband's absences on affairs of state.
This account of Sam Houston's wife, which presents details of
the general's life not hitherto explored, is in addition a colorful
picture of the time in which she lived. It is a realistic appraisal
of Sam and Margaret Houston, to which the author has brought a
fresh and sympathetic understanding. In writing the richly human
story, he has made extensive use of unpublished manuscripts and
original documents in private hands and public archives.
This story of the young city of Washington coming up in the
international scene is populated with presidents, foreign
diplomats, civil servants, architects, artists, and influential
hosts and hostesses who were enamored of the idea of world power
but had
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG96-B1325Includes index.New Haven: Yale University Press,
1918. vii, 234 p.; 19 cm
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
"The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum
South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi" is the first
comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet
overlooked architect in the American South. William Nichols
designed three major university campuses--the University of North
Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of
Mississippi. He also designed the first state capitols of North
Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Nichols's architecture
profoundly influenced the built landscape of the South but due to
fire, neglect, and demolition, much of his work was lost and
history has nearly forgotten his tremendous legacy.
In his research onsite and through archives in North Carolina,
Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Paul Hardin Kapp has produced
a narrative of the life and times of William Nichols that weaves
together the elegant work of this architect with the aspirations
and challenges of the Antebellum South. It is richly illustrated
with over two hundred archival photographs and drawings from the
Historic American Building Survey.
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