rs. Short 7th grade
Sam Houston’s Evolution People may only know of Sam Houston because he has a university named after him with his statue at the entrance. But there is definitely more than what meets the eye here. I’m here to tell anyone who reads this essay that he’s more than a man who got a university named after himself, because there’s more to him than that. Houston is one of the reasons we have Texas today. If this man never existed, we wouldn’t have our independence or our happiness. Sam Houston didn’t attend school because he already knew how to read and didn’t feel the need to go somewhere where he would be ordered around about how to hold his pen and such things. When he was thirteen, Houston lived in Virginia. Until one day,
