1829

 

Sam Houston runs into marital troubles: 

Soon after his inauguration he had married an accomplished young lady, to whom he one day intimated, in jest, that she apparently cared more for a former lover than she did for him. “You are correct,” she said earnestly. “I love Mr. Nickerson’s little finger better than I do your whole body.” Words ensued, and the next day Houston resigned his Governorship, went into the Cherokee country, west of the Arkansas River, adopted the Indian costume, and became an Indian trader. He was the best customer supplied from his own whiskey barrel…

 

Then he heard about the trouble in Texas. “A friend agreeing to accompany him, he cast off his Indian attire, again dressed like a white man, and never drank a drop of intoxicating beverage afterward.” (Benjamin Perley Poole, Reminiscences; Volume 1, pp. 369-370.)

Sam Houston - after he became famous.