1990 collector's edition; The American Past publishers, New York; Book-of-the-Month Club; hardbound with red cloth external slipcase; beautiful photos and illustrations; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket and external slipcase very good condition.
 
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This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semilegendary characters--with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen. . . . In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers; in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him. --from the introduction by Henry Steele Commager