The First Texan is a 1956 American CinemaScope and Technicolor western film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr and Jeff Morrow.

Sam Houston, a lawyer and former governor of Tennessee, travels to San Antonio, Texas to begin a new life.

Houston represents him in court and successfully argues that the charge against Bowie must be dismissed because Mexico was not under martial law at the time.

His forces are told to "remember the Alamo," and they proceed to overwhelm Santa Anna and his men in the Battle of San Jacinto.

Texas is declared a free republic, and Sam Houston its first president, a movement that eventually will lead to statehood.