The Sam Houston statue is 67 ft. tall on a 10 ft. base, meaning the total height is 77 ft. tall, making it the tallest statue of an American hero, ...

The head-spinning Battle of Sam Houston’s Statue is over, culminating in a media circus that was ultimately birthed from a troll job. And that’s exactly what many believed it to be all along.

A statue of Sam Houston stands near I-45 at the Sam Houston Statue and Visitors Center on Thursday, May 7, 2015 in Huntsville, Texas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)(Ashley Landis / Staff ...

Local artist David Adickes created the 67-foot tall Sam Houston statue on the way to Huntsville, downtown Houston’s 36-foot Virtuoso sculpture and the 20-foot Cornet sculpture in Galveston.

The statue of Sam Houston stands 67 feet tall on a 10-foot granite base. The Huntsville Visitors Bureau website proclaims it as the world's tallest statue of an American hero.

You may not know his name, but you definitely know his art.David Adickes is legendary for his giant talent and even more for his giant steel and concrete artworks.From his colorful "We Love Houston" ...

We know Sam Houston owned slaves. A group of trolls called Texas Antifa started a social media campaign to have the statue of him in Hermann Park removed as a result.

The Sam Houston statue has been at Hermann Park since 1925, but a group that calls itself Texas Antifa has started a campaign to take down this and any other landmark that bears the name Sam Houston.

Everthing is bigger in Texas, and the Houston Texans didn't dissapoint. Fans were stunned to see the team's new jersey towering over I-45 on the 67-foot-tall landmark in Huntsville.

Armed protesters carrying Confederate flags rallied around the Sam Houston statue in Texas on Saturday to demonstrate against what they perceived as efforts to remove the monument, The Associated ...

The anticipated anti-Sam Houston protesters were no-shows at Hermann Park. Throughout the week, media reports swirled that Saturday's protest advocating the statue's removal was fake. Advertisement ...