The Raven's Bride: A Novel of Eliza Allen and Sam Houston by Elizabeth Crook, Barbara Whitehead

The Raven's Bride: A Novel of Eliza Allen and Sam Houston

Elizabeth Crook, Barbara Whitehead

418 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative mysterious medium-paced
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The marriage in 1829 of Sam Houston, the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, to Eliza Allen, the twenty-year-old daughter of a prominent landholder, lasted only eleven weeks. The ensuing scandal caused Houston to resign his office in disgra...

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