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Text Copyright © 2008 by Mary Dodson Wade

Illustration Copyright © 2008 by Joy Fisher Hein

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Wade, Mary Dodson.

Sam Houston : standing firm / by Mary Dodson Wade ; illustrated by Joy Fisher Hein.

p. cm. – (Texas heroes for young readers)

ISBN 978-1-933979-13-7 (plc hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Houston, Sam, 1793-1863—Juvenile literature.

2. Governors—Texas—Biography—Juvenile literature.

3. Legislators—United States—Biography—Juvenile literature.

4. United States. Congress. Senate—Biography—Juvenile literature.

5. Soldiers—Texas—Biography—Juvenile literature. 6. Texas—History—To 1846—Juvenile literature.

I. Hein, Joy Fisher ill. II. Title. III. series.

F390.H84W335 2008

976.4’05092—dc2

[B]2008043040

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