Editing Sam Houston (section)

==Legacy==
[[Houston]], the largest city in Texas and the [[Southern United States|American South]], is named in his honor. Several [[List of places named for Sam Houston|other things and places]] are named for Houston, including Sam Houston State University; Houston County, Minnesota; Houston County, Tennessee; Houston County, Texas. Other [[List of monuments and memorials to Sam Houston|monuments and memorials]] include [[Sam Houston National Forest]], Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, U.S. Army post [[Fort Sam Houston]] in San Antonio, the [[USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609)|USS ''Sam Houston'' (SSBN-609)]], and [[Sam Houston Monument|a sculpture of Houston]] in the city of Houston's [[Hermann Park]].

{{anchor|A Tribute to Courage}}[[File: A Tribute to Courage (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|''A Tribute to Courage'' statue in [[Hunstville, Texas]].]]
A 67-foot-tall statue of Houston, created by sculptor [[David Adickes]] in 1994, named ''A Tribute to Courage'' (and colloquially called "Big Sam") stands next to [[Interstate 45|I-45]], between Dallas and Houston, in Huntsville, Texas.<ref>{{cite web |title=Giant Statue of Sam Houston|url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7247|publisher=RoadsideAmerica.com|access-date=April 11, 2017}}</ref> It is the [[List of the tallest statues in the United States|ninth-tallest statue in the United States]] and was vandalized with graffiti in March 2008.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sam Houston statue vandalized |url=http://www.itemonline.com/news/local_news/sam-houston-statue-vandalized/article_731e78f2-3040-59a0-bfb9-b5a1fab252ee.html |newspaper=[[The Huntsville Item]] |first=Kristin |last=Edwards |date=March 20, 2008 |access-date=February 20, 2022}}</ref> Along with Stephen F. Austin, Houston is one of two Texans with a statue in the [[National Statuary Hall]]. Houston has been portrayed in works such as ''[[Man of Conquest]]'', ''[[Gone to Texas (film)|Gone to Texas]]'', ''[[Texas Rising]]'', and ''[[The Alamo (1960 film)|The Alamo]]''. In 1960, he was inducted into the [[Hall of Great Westerners]] of the [[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hall of Great Westerners |url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/hall-of-great-westerners/ |website=National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |access-date=November 22, 2019}}</ref>

There is a question about whether Houston made a pejorative comment about Mexicans in an 1835 speech to the Texas volunteer army at Refugio.  One second hand source makes this claim;<ref>{{cite book |last1=De León |first1=Arnoldo |title=They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900 |date=January 1, 1983 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0292780545 |page=7 |edition=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJkGwn6H14IC |access-date=August 24, 2020}}</ref> however, subsequent research casts doubt on the source and concludes that the disparaging comment is unlikely to have occurred.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crisp |first1=James E. |title=Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution (New Narratives in American History) |date=February 24, 2005
|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195163506 |edition=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Analysis-Of-Sleuthing-The-Alamo-F3ZQLVNHZSR|title = Analysis of Sleuthing the Alamo - 980 Words &#124; Bartleby}}</ref>