Book Club: Exiled: The Last days of Sam Houston

The Bryan Museum Book Club is a social group who enjoys studying books about Texas and the American West. Our primary focus is non-fiction works, with the occasional fictional work included.

Third Thursday of every other month
La Sirena Bar inside The Bryan Museum

About Exiled by Ron Rozelle

After an undisputed record of political achievement—leading the decisive battle for Texas independence at San Jacinto, serving twice as president of the Republic of Texas, twice again as a United States senator after annexation, and finally as governor of Texas—Sam Houston found himself in the winter of his life in a self-imposed exile among the pines of East Texas.

Ron Rozelle’s masterful biographical portrait here lingers on Houston’s final years, especially as lived out in Huntsville, when so much of his life’s work seemed on the verge of coming undone. Artfully written for the general reader, Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston is a compelling look at Sam Houston’s legacy and twilight years.