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With Sam Houston in Texas: A Boy Volunteer in the Texas Struggles for Independence, When in the Years 1835-1836 the Texas Colonists Threw Off the Unjust Rule of Mexico, and by Heroic Deeds Established, Under the Guidance of the Bluff Sam Houston, Their Own Free Republic Which To-day is the Great Lone Star State — John Shaqi

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With Sam Houston in Texas: A Boy Volunteer in the Texas Struggles for Independence, When in the Years 1835-1836 the Texas Colonists Threw Off the Unjust Rule of Mexico, and by Heroic Deeds Established, Under the Guidance of the Bluff Sam Houston, Their Own Free Republic Which To-day is the Great Lone Star State

Name: With Sam Houston in Texas: A Boy Volunteer in the Texas Struggles for Independence, When in the Years 1835-1836 the Texas Colonists Threw Off the Unjust Rule of Mexico, and by Heroic Deeds Established, Under the Guidance of the Bluff Sam Houston, Their Own Free Republic Which To-day is the Great Lone Star State
Author: Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863 -- Juvenile fiction

Weak natures do not accept that verdict, or they take more pleasure in
pitying themselves than in aiding themselves. Sam Houston sank; the
world, disappointed, said that he was a failure, after all――he could
not hold his course, and had abandoned the helm. But he could, and he
did. He rose, he grasped the wheel again, he retrimmed his sails, and
he forged on, with faith and will, to fulfil the capabilities with
which he had been entrusted.

Of the boys in this book, James Monroe Hill, Leo Roark, and Sion
Bostick appear in Texas history under these very names. Without doubt
they had a friend and comrade like Ernest Merrill; many boys marched
and fought beside the men in the Texas struggle for independence
from Mexico. Names amount to very little, anyway; they simply are
convenient. It is deeds that count.

                                                         EDWIN L. SABIN

CALIFORNIA, June 1, 1916




CONTENTS


 CHAPTER                                         PAGE
         THE RISE OF TEXAS                         13
         SAM HOUSTON――THE BUILDER OF TEXAS         20
      I. “I AM SAM HOUSTON”                        27
     II. ON THE ROAD TO TEXAS                      42
    III. SANTA ANNA PROVES FALSE                   58
     IV. “WE MUST DEFEND OUR RIGHTS”               71
      V. ERNEST CARRIES THE ALARM                  82
     VI. GONZALES KEEPS ITS SIX-POUNDER            92
    VII. THE MUSTERING OF THE TROOPS              104
   VIII. THE MARCH ON SAN ANTONIO                 116
     IX. WITH JIM BOWIE AT THE HORSESHOE          130
      X. AN APPEAL TO THE UNITED STATES           144
     XI. SAM HOUSTON COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF           157
    XII. HOUSE TO HOUSE IN OLD BEJAR              172
   XIII. GENERAL HOUSTON DESPAIRS                 188
    XIV. INDEPENDENCE IS DECLARED                 202
     XV. THE SIGNAL GUNS OF THE ALAMO             216
    XVI. MESSENGERS OF DISTRESS                   229
   XVII. RETREAT, AND EVER RETREAT                242
  XVIII. TO FACE THE ENEMY AT LAST                253
    XIX. FINDING SANTA ANNA                       267
     XX. “WILL YOU COME TO THE BOWER?”            280
    XXI. THE NAPOLEON OF THE WEST SURRENDERS      295
   XXII. PRESIDENT HOUSTON RESIGNS HIS SWORD      307




ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                           PAGE

 AND AMIDST A GENERAL CRY, OVER SHE WENT    _Frontispiece_

 GENERAL SAM HOUSTON AT THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO            13

 ERNEST BARELY DREW REIGN TO SHOUT AT A FIGURE IN THE
    DOORWAY: “GONZALES ATTACKED! THEY NEED MEN”              84

 DOWN SANK THE LAST CANNONEER                               143

 “HERE WE GO!” CALLED JIM. “HOIST HIM IN, QUICK”            186

 TEXAS IN 1835–1836 AND MARCH OF THE TWO ARMIES EASTWARD
    TO SAN JACINTO                                          262

 BATTLE GROUND OF SAN JACINTO                               290

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