THE RAVEN'S BRIDE

A NOVEL OF ELIZA, SAM HOUSTON'S FIRST WIFE

 By Elizabeth Crook

Doubleday, ISBN # 0-385-41775-6, First Edition, Second Printing, February 1991

6.5" x 9.5", 369 page hardcover with dustjacket

This is the first novel Elizabeth Crook wrote. It is about the attraction of Sam Houston and Eliza Allen to each other, and eventual short lived marriage. They separated after three months, and neither ever spoke to anyone about what had happened. Their secrets went to their graves.

Crook did an incredible amount of research on the pair, with Sam Houston's history the easiest, because he was such a famous person in the history of Tennessee, Texas, and several wars. Eliza is an entirely different story, as very little is known about her, and she left no letters, diary, etc. for historians to read. What Crook has done, based on friends' comments, testimonies, conversations, letters, and her own extensive research, is to fill in where there are blanks, with what she thinks was said and occurred. 

The book is complete and in VERY GOOD condition with some overall wear mainly to the dustjacket. On the half-title page, the book is flat signed by the author, Elizabeth Crook.