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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 CommagerJames, Marquis is the author of 'Raven A Biography of Sam Houston' with ISBN 9780292770409 and ISBN 0292770405.
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