Sam Houston
But, despite such accomplishments, Houston spent the waning days of his life in self-imposed exile in the pines of East Texas. Why?
Ron Rozelle focuses on those final years of Houston's life in his book Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston.
Rozelle talks with Houston Matters about the twilight years of a Texas legend.

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