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Released from Mexican misrule, free to turn its arms against the marauding Indians, and by the payment of $10,000,000 by the United States soon made financially independent, the great State of Texas, 800 miles long, 750 miles wide, has prospered abundantly. The spirit of the Lone Star Republic still lives in the words, always proudly spoken: “I am a Texan.”
SAM HOUSTON
THE BUILDER OF TEXAS
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March 2, 1793, born at Timber Ridge Church, near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia, of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Father: Major Samuel Houston, soldier of the Revolution and Assistant Inspector-General of the frontier troops.
Mother: Elizabeth Paxton Houston, a large woman of fine physique and strong character.
At eight years of age young Sam attends country school in the “Field School,” which occupied the old building out of which Washington University had removed to Lexington.
In 1807 his father dies, and his brave-spirited mother, now left with six sons and three daughters, crosses the Allegheny Mountains and resettles eight miles east of the Tennessee River in Blount County, Tennessee, here to build a cabin and clear the land.