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Star of Destiny
The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston
by Madge Thornall Roberts
Foreword by Randolph B. Campbell
It is not often we are allowed to glimpse the
private side of so public a man as Sam Houston. Star of
Destiny is based in large part on the personal corre-
spondence between Houston and his wife Margaret,
letters which were unavailable to researchers until
Madge Thornall Roberts, a Houston descendant
herself, gathered them together for this book.
Because the Houstons lived apart most of their
married lives-she at home caring for their growing
family, he in Washington as Senator-the letters are
full of the minute details of family life and relation-
ships which are ordinarily unavailable to the historian.
Houston shows himself to be a man unashamed of his
emotional dependence on his wife and children. And
Margaret, far from being a quiet, pampered political
wife, proved capable of battling her own poor health
while raising her children and overseeing the farm
work in her husband's absence.Cloth $24.50 ISBN 0-929398-51-3
448 pp. 36 b&w photos. Bib. Index.
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