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Title The Texas that might have been [electronic resource] : Sam Houston's foes write to Albert Sidney Johnston / collected by Margaret Swett Henson ; edited and with an introduction by Donald E. Willett.

Imprint College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxi, 280 p. : ill.
Series Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the South and Southwest ; no. 33
Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 33.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "The glorious excitement of uncertainty": the Lamar years, 1838-1841 -- "All that emanates from him is falsehood upon deceit": the Houston years, 1842-1845 -- "So let it be": statehood and secession, 1846-1861 -- Appendix: chronological list of the letters -- Notes to preface and introductions.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Love, James, 1795-1874 -- Correspondence.
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863 -- Adversaries -- Correspondence.
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862 -- Correspondence.
Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte, 1798-1859.
Texas -- Officials and employees -- Correspondence.
Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846.
Texas -- History -- 1846-1950.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862.
Henson, Margaret Swett, 1924-2001.
Willett, Donald.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781603441452 (cloth : alk. paper)
160344145X (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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