On Jul. 12, 1839, Sam Houston wrote a letter to his favorite pen pal, a woman young enough to be his daughter, to say how much he missed her and his Texas.
The three sides of the best known romantic triangle in Lone Star history first laid eyes on each other in 1833. Fourteen year old Anna Raguet had settled recently in Nacogdoches with her father Henry. Dr. Robert Irion, 15 years the beauty’s…