William Carey Crane

Name: Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas — Chapter 2
Author: William Carey Crane

Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas… (1884)

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“Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas — Chapter 2”, published in 1884, is a work by William Carey Crane. It explores elements such as Sam Houston, the Tennessee River and Virginia.

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William Carey Crane, Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas… (1884)

“ The influence of such parents on Sam Houston was seen in every period of his life.
His early years exhibited a daring independence and self-reliance very remarkable, and to many minds indicated a disastrous rather than a prosperous future. Not until eight years old could he be induced to enter a school-house. In the imperfect schools then existing in Virginia, he learned to read and write, and obtained some skill in arithmetic. Up to the time of his father's death, which occurred when he was thirteen years old, he had hardly been to an "Old Field" school more than six months in all. ”

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William Carey Crane, Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas… (1884)

“ Heroic in spirit, this family of four females and six males halted not till it had reached the verge of emigrants' wanderings sixty years ago. The Tennessee River was the boundary line between the white men and the Cherokee Indians. Eight miles from this river the Houstons pitched their tents. Here Sam and his brothers soon commenced breaking up soil never before touched by the plow, and providing subsistence for their mother and sisters. Here hard work and Sam Houston first became familiar. For a short time he went to an Academy, which at that time flourished in East Tennessee. ”

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William Carey Crane, Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas… (1884)

“ I send the above lines, not so much for their poetic merit, but merely to illustrate the character of the man whose mind was burdened with the uncertainty of great events, that were to startle the world by their magnitude, yet could turn aside to the call of love or friendship with the graceful ease of a courtier. ”

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William Carey Crane, Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas… (1884)

“ His good mother received him kindly, and his brothers cared for him properly. But he was driven to the woods again at the first exhibition of tyranny. Here, again, he passed months in wild chases, with his Indian mates, after the game of the forest, wandering by the streams with Indian maidens, communing in Nature's language in the period of his life which was fashioning the man for his destiny. He was at a school, learning his lessons, expanding those powers which in after-years were to be tested in associations with the various classes of human nature. ”

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William Carey Crane, Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas… (1884)

“ The persons that have heretofore sketched his life have fallen into a common American error: that to make a hero they must make him spring from nothing. His fame needs the aid of no such props, and I hope your history will be more just to his honorable ancestry. ”

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William Carey Crane, Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas… (1884)

“ On his father's and mother's side, in both lines, his ancestry is traced to the highlands of Scotland. By the side of John Knox, they fought for "God and Liberty." With a multitude of others they were forced to leave their Scottish homes, and seek a refuge in the north of Ireland. After the siege of Derry, in which they were engaged, they emigratad to Pennsylvania. For more than a century the ancestors of his father and mother were near each other. They had settled in Virginia, in close proximity, many years before the marriage of the father and mother of Sam Houston. ”

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William Carey Crane, Life and select literary remains of Sam Houston of Texas… (1884)

“ Parentage and Early Life — First Efforts in Education — His Boy-Life among thr Cherokee Indians. Near a locality known as Timber Ridge Church, seven miles east of Lexington, in Rockbridge County, Virginia, on the 2d of March, 1793, Sam Houston was born. ”

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