Title: Steer head
Description: One-piece wooden longhorn steer head mounted on a star. Printed on the reverse: This Texas longhorn steer head was made by Sam Houston, nephew and namesake of General Sam Houston. He is the only man who crossed the Indian trail in North Dakota and survived, a distance of 175 miles. He was without food or water for three days and nights with the exception of drinking the blood of a Lobo Wolf. Age 78. 731 Palmetto, San Antonio, Texas. Member of Old Trail Drivers Association.
Description: Historical Note: This Texas longhorn steer head is labeled as being made by Sam Houston, nephew and namesake of General Sam Houston. Madge Thornall Roberts, the author of a UNT Press multi-volume publication of the personal correspondence of Sam Houston, determined that Houston had no nephew named Sam Houston. The person who made this item may have been Houston's great nephew or some other descendant of one of Sam Houston's three siblings who had children. He appears in the 1910 U.S. Census as age 54 (born about 1856).
Description: Related Collection: Houston Papers at the Catholic Archives.
Identifier: ATF0027
Item identifier: ATF0027
Collection: Artifacts collection
Date range of creation: 1934 to 1935
Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 1962/031
Container information: Artifact Box 0011
Subject: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
Type: Image
Type: Decorative Furnishings
Type: Hanging, Wall
Medium: Wood (plant material)
Citation information: ATF0027, Artifacts collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
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Size or duration: 12 in x 7.5 in x 2.9 in
Language: English
