Texas Trivia

[FastEd]

Hermann Park, Houston, TX (Bellaire).
Ole Sam Houston never looked better.
In 1949, Sam Houston High School had their graduation at this location.
I remember I got my first Telegram there, yeah from Helen Arrondo.

The sculptor of this famous monument said that the horse with one leg raised
indicated the hero was wounded in the battle (San Jacinto).
Two hooves raised meant that he died in battle and four hooves
on the ground meant he survived the battle unscathed.

President Lyndon B. Johnson was once a teacher at Sam Houston.
The first girls military drill team originated there, The Black Battalion.
This school was located right in the center of down town Houston across
from the Federal Building and Post Office.
It is now a parking lot.

 

[Bob Wright]

The "raised hooves" legend is just that ~ legend. Not a true indication.

Bob Wright

 

[baronvoncatania]

The "raised hooves" legend is just that ~ legend. Not a true indication.

Bob Wright

cAN ANYONE DOCUMENT THIS "LEGEND"? I ALWAY THOUGHT IT WAS TRUE.

 

[FastEd]

The "raised hooves" legend is just that ~ legend. Not a true indication.

Bob Wright

I SAID "THIS SCULPTOR"

 

[Wyandot Jim]

https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/gettysburg-monument-series-the-horse-hoof-question-an-enduring-myth/

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.asp

Looks like a myth. I always thought it was true.

 

[Bkat]

While it's evidently a myth, Houston was wounded in the Battle of San Jacinto, shot in the ankle. So maybe the sculptor didn't know the bit about the hooves was a myth.

Bkat

 

[FastEd]

And being a myth is just a myth is just a myth.
Actually its just a tradition among many sculptors, not cast in stone,
not a federal law, not one of the Ten Commandants.
I'm not trying to sell anything here, its not a conspiracy.
Its just a clever way to make a statement about the monument.
Its a monument to one of the great Texas Heroes, not the G/D horse.