Sam Houston is an American legend: the man who won the Texas war for independence in a brilliant military maneuver at San Jacinto, where he captured the Mexican general Santa Anna. During his colorful life, he was governor of Tennessee, lived among the Cherokee, served as the first president of Texas, and was a congressman and senator. Now, on the ...
The story of the building of the transcontinental railroad--featuring such famous characters as Leland Stanford, Buffalo Bill, and George Armstrong Custer--is a boisterous saga of the Republic's emerging from the Civil War, reaching for its manifest destiny. 32 pages of photos.
"Williams tells this rousing tale with verve and gusto. For all the railroad buffs and those who savor the lore of the Old West." - "Library Journal". Williams has "done a marvelously imaginative job of writing...He manages to capture the romance and color." - "Choice". "Highly readable...because both text and illustrations have a human and humane ...
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