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Star of Destiny : The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston
author
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Roberts, Madge Thornall.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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0929398513
print isbn13
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9780929398518
ebook isbn13
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9780585332154
language
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English
subject
Houston, Sam,--1793-1863, Houston, Margaret Lea,--1819-1867, Governors--Texas--Biography, Governors' spouses--Texas--Biography, Legislators--United States--Biography, Legislators' spouses--United States--Biography, United States.--Congress.--Senate--Biogr
publication date
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1993
lcc
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F390.H84R6 1993eb
ddc
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976.4/04/092
subject
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Houston, Sam,--1793-1863, Houston, Margaret Lea,--1819-1867, Governors--Texas--Biography, Governors' spouses--Texas--Biography, Legislators--United States--Biography, Legislators' spouses--United States--Biography, United States.--Congress.--Senate--Biogr
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Star of Destiny
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Star of Destiny
The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston
by Madge Thornall Roberts
Foreword by Randolph B. Campbell
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University of North Texas Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roberts, Madge Thornall, 1929 Star of destiny : the private life of Sam and Margaret Houston / by Madge Thornall Roberts. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0929398513 1. Houston, Sam, 17931863. 2. Houston, Margaret Lea, 18191867. 3. GovernorsTexasBiography. 4. Governors' wivesTexasBiography. 5. LegislatorsUnited StatesBiography. 6. Legislators' wivesUnited StatesBiography. 7. United States. Congress. SenateBiography. I. Title. F390.H84R6 1993 976.404092dc20 [B] 9231587 CIP
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To my grandmother who told me the story of her grandmother
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Table of Contents
page
Foreword
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
xiii
Chapter 1I have a strange feeling that someday I shall meet this man.
1
Chapter 2Last night I gazed long upon our beauteous emblem, the star of destiny.
17
Chapter 3My mind fixes itself on the bright hour in which we first met and loved.
35
Chapter 4The gay voice of his wife, mingling with tones of her harp and piano, was heard.
61
Chapter 5She would have graced the household of any man, be he president or prince.
93
Chapter 6Alas, what has always been my decision when my own happiness or the good of the country was to be sacrificed?
111
Chapter 7He has decided [I] must be operated on.... I hope to sit down to it like a soldier.
141
Chapter 8I am where it is said the world is, and yet I am far from all that constitutes my world on earth.
155
Chapter 9Last night as I came home... I saw our "Star."
181
Chapter 10I am gratified to see that you are homesick and weary of public life.
203
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Chapter 11If his affection had been equal to mine, could he have left me?
225
Chapter 12There is everywhere a void which nothing can fill, but the presence of my darling husband.
251
Chapter 13Do you know I am more in love with you than I ever was in my life?
269
Chapter 14In the still watches of the night, I hear him agonizing in prayer for our distracted country.
285
Chapter 15I have no spirit to write... on account of my deep affliction from my dear boy being sent to Mississippi.
307
Chapter 16When the great sorrow first fell... I could not see how [to] guide my little flock through the dreary wilderness.
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