The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 45, July 1941 - April, 1942 Page: 248
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pants of something very cheap'0 . . . a broad-brimmed hat
of a smokey color, with the fur nap half an inch long. The
hat was a very fine one and General Houston wore it on sev-
eral occasions when his best pictures were taken. His foot-
wear was a pair of russett shoes without strings. This was
his almost daily garb during the early administration, although
he had better."" President Houston called all the Indian chiefs
in to have a big talk and when he and ten or fifteen aides rode
grandly out at a brisk canter to where the Indians were en-
camped, young Lockhart did not recognize General Houston,
who was in full military uniform. "On that day he was the
finest looking man I ever saw." After Dr. Lockhart served in
the Civil War and saw many leading military men on both
sides, he said that General Houston was, in his judgment, vastly
the superior of them all. "General Robert E. Lee came nearer
him in soldierly bearing and commanding appearance than
any."
The Sultan of Turkey sent President Houston a suit of
clothes. According to Dr. Lockhart there was a long flowing
red robe, of beautiful silk which came near his ankles, pants
(Turkish fashion) large and baggy around the waist which
measured several yards and were intended to be gathered in
with a silk sash, not suspended from the shoulders. There was
not a button on them. At the other extremity shoes of yellow
Turkish leather were sewed to the pants. General Houston
could never be induced to try the pants on but the robe he
wore all summer in his office.'3 "The Sultan also sent him a
red fez, but this he would never wear."
To a greater extent than many frontiers, that of Texas was
inhabited largely by intelligent persons who had been unfor-
tunate either in their personal or financial life in the United
States and had come to the young Republic to retrieve what
they had lost. On the slightest excuse, in the cities of Houston,
Velasco and Austin, a ball was given. For the times were
fraught with danger and people on the alert for the cry of
"Indians!" could not sit often and listen to long theological
'ODr. John Lockhart, Sixty Years on the Brazos, 120. Originally pub-
lished in the Dallas and Galveston News. "I think osnaburg, though of
this I will not be positive, but if not something almost as cheap."
"Dr. John Lockhart, op. cit., 120.
1"Dr. John Lockhart, op. cit., 98.
'3Dr. John Lockhart, op. cit., 120.248
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