Chapter I: Front Matter

WITH SAM HOUSTON
IN TEXAS

_The American Trail Blazers_

“THE STORY GRIPS AND THE HISTORY STICKS”

These books present in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the early and adventurous phases of American history. Each volume deals with the life and adventures of one of the great men who made that history, or with some one great event in which, perhaps, several heroic characters were involved. The stories, though based upon accurate historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramatic action, and appeal to the imagination of the red-blooded man or boy.

Each volume illustrated in color and black and white.

INTO MEXICO WITH GENERAL SCOTT

LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE

GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES

OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK

WITH CARSON AND FRÉMONT

DANIEL BOONE: BACKWOODSMAN

BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH

DAVID CROCKETT: SCOUT

ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER

GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49

WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS

WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON INTO THE WILDERNESS

IN THE RANKS OF OLD HICKORY

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

BY
EDWIN L. SABIN

AUTHOR OF “ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER,” “BUFFALO BILL
AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL,” ETC.

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY_
CHARLES H. STEPHENS
_PORTRAIT AND MAPS_

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

SEVENTH IMPRESSION

PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO THE
AMERICAN SPIRIT OF FREEDOM
AND ITS STARS
IN THE AMERICAN FLAG

When Freedom from her mountain-height
Unfurled her standard to the air.
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.

――DRAKE