Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . s part of thecountry, said the (irowler. Named for a man whose life history is asstrange as the phantasies of a delirium, it has become the center of a sub-stantial and expanding commerce. Sam Houston was a brilliant and braveman. who had the distinction of being a renowned soldier, the governor of Named for the ^ ^ ^ If , 1 T-> ? 1 r m^ , • hero of San two States, a member of congress and the President of 1 exas when it its independence through the decisive blow
Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . s part of thecountry, said the (irowler. Named for a man whose life history is asstrange as the phantasies of a delirium, it has become the center of a sub-stantial and expanding commerce. Sam Houston was a brilliant and braveman. who had the distinction of being a renowned soldier, the governor of Named for the ^ ^ ^ If , 1 T-> ? 1 r m^ , • hero of San two States, a member of congress and the President of 1 exas when it its independence through the decisive blow which he struck in thebattle of San Jacinto where he annihilated the Mexican army. The onlyblot upon his reputation — and whether that was one or not we can onlyguess—was his strange abandonment of his wife and career in Tennesseeand his alliance with the Cherokee Indians. What , motives impelled him. or what crisis prompted tohe never told, and perhaps wenot guess. At any rate a great andgrowing city has sprungup here in sixty years,replied the fortv thousand so extreme an acthad better.
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