Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860

by Mark M. Carroll

Book Overview

When he settled in Mexican Texas in 1832 and began courting Anna Raguet, Sam Houston had been separated from his Tennessee wife Eliza Allen for three years, while having already married and divorced his Cherokee wife Tiana and at least two other Indian "wives" during the interval. Houston's political enemies derided these marital irregularities, but in fact Houston's legal and extralegal marriages hardly set him apart from many other Texas men...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292712286
• ISBN13: 9780292712287
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"