Anson Jones: The Last President of Texas

"A portrait which no one in Texas has surpassed in biography," said Walter Prescott Webb in the Dallas News. "The most artfully written biography that Texas has yet produced," wrote J. Frank Dobie in Saturday Review. "Gambrell writes with wisdom, a shrewd grasp of motives and a quiet but pervasive humor," commented the New York Herald Tribune.

These are excerpts from reviews appearing after Anson Jones was first published in 1947. This new edition of the fascinating story of Texas and her last President contains full documentation and an enlarged bibliography. This is a perceptive and informative account of the man who came penniless to Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the disorders of settlement, revolution, and early political experimentation to statehood.