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Steam Boat Yellow Stone Aided General Sam Houston and the Texas RevolutionWild West | 3 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post
When Charlotte Ross wrote years later, after Texas became a state in 1845, she was applying for the captian’s pension. Earlier, her husband had sought the promised payment of land for his service to Texas, but he never received it. On Mrs. Ross’s behalf, Houston confided to the state auditors, ‘Had it not been for the Steam Boat Yellow Stone, we would have lost Texas. Subscribe Today
This article was written by Carmen Goldthwaite and originally appeared in the June 2002 issue of Wild West.
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3 Comments to “Steam Boat Yellow Stone Aided General Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution”
What a wonderful story about Texas and the Steamboat Yellow stone.
By W. Richardson on Jul 19, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Thanks for the info i really liked it fools.
By Bubba J on Jan 8, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I am a direct descendant of Thomas Wigg Grayson. One of the most excellent accounts I have read about the Yellowstone yet. Thank you!
By Scott A. on Jan 21, 2009 at 7:37 pm