At the age of 13, Houston left home to join a cattle drive, and later worked on a riverboat on the Mississippi River.

Aided by a friend of his father, he gained an appointment as a page in the U.S. Senate, and worked in Washington, DC, for three years.

They lived near Fort Elliott, which protected the border against American Indians, as well as the important cattle drives.

Her ghost surrounds the haunted folklore behind the painting "Love Letters" which her father had asked a painter to make in memory of his daughter.

He was legal counsel of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway; its Woodward depot became one of the most important points in the territory for cattle shipping to the East.

He was charged with murder in the shooting of a brother of the outlaw Al Jennings, after an argument in the Cabinet Saloon, and was acquitted.

The argument on behalf of Minnie Stacey, a prostitute who worked at the Dew Drop Inn, became famous for winning her acquittal after ten minutes' consideration by the jury.

[4] Houston had agreed to be a candidate in Oklahoma's first gubernatorial election, but died two years before statehood.