Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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After Ind ions, Sam Houston enlists with General Jackson and is severely wounded while leading a charge at the battle of Horseshoe Bend. Jackson commends him for his gallantry, and a life-long friendship is formed. Jackson is elected to the Presidency and Houston becomes Governor of Tennessee. On the eve of Houston's re-election, he marries Eliza Allen but after many misunderstandings they separate. Houston resigns in the face of the scandal, goes into a long debauch and returns to the Cherokee Notion. He goes to Washington to protest the treatment of the Cherokees by the government, and there meets Margaret Leo at a Presidential boll. Jackson persuades Houston to go to Texas, where he meets Margaret Leo again. Jim Bowie and Dovey Crockett decline to join Houston in a fight to free Texas. They are loyal to peace-loving Stephen Austin, who refuses to enter into war with Mexico. Word is brought that the Mexican Army is marching across Texas, killing and plundering. Austin is convinced that Texas must fight and Houston ogrees to lead the ormy. The Mexicans attack the Alamo and Crockett, Bowie. Travis ond others perish. Houston riding to re-inforce this garrison arrives too late. Thus the cry, "Remember the Alamo!" is born. At Son Jacinto, Houston outsmarts the enemy and with o handful of troups routs the Mexican Army, thereby establishing the independence of Texas. Houston is elected first president of the new Republic, and, with Margaret Leo, now his wife, he watches the Lone Star come down and the Stars and Stripes raised on the capitol flagpole, signifying the annexation of Texas into the Union. Bock in Tennessee, Andrew Jackson, dying, hears the news and whispers, "All is safe at last. My old friend and companion in arms . . . has been true to his trust."