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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.43 (search)
General Sam Houston.
From the New York Herald, Dec. 29, 1907.
Explanation of causes which led the soldier-governor to Forsake the three-months' bride to live with Cherokee Indian Tribe.
Austin, Tex., Saturday, December 28, 1907.
The mystery of that chapter in General Sam Houston's life which caused him to suddenly resign as Governor of the State of Tennessee and go into the wilds of the West, where he joined the Cherokee Indians, leaving behind a bride of three months, has been an eyer fruitful subject of discussion among the people who are familiar with the life of that strange man, who did so much in later years to win for Texas her independence.
That there was a romance behind his mysterious withdrawal from civilization is well known and many have been the surmises as to the details.
Thomas Boyers, an aged resident of Gallatin, Tenn., who was a friend of both Houston and his bride, has just thrown new light on the romance.
He says:
In the life of the cel