Houston Goes Into Exile With Cherokees
Published April 7, 2008 | By Bartee Haile
Houston Goes Into Exile With Cherokees During the first week of April 1829, Sam Houston sent his teenaged bride home to mother, decided to resign as governor of Tennessee and made preparations for a self-imposed exile among his boyhood friends, the Cherokees. Twenty years earlier, the 16-year-old had rebelled against his older brothers
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