Examines the history and significance of the Alamo in the battle for freedom for Texas, and includes Internet links for more information and a virtual tour.
Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...
For Charlie Taylor , silver of tongue , noble of deed — PP To T.R. & Fran , always up for a fandango — MB To my wife , Cheryl — DG GROSSET & DUNLAP Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group ( USA ) Inc. , 375 Hudson Street , New York ...
Profiles the defenders, enemy soldiers, and innocent bystanders and tells the story of the Texas defeat in alphabet format.
Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic ...
"The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary, partly hearsay and at best fragmentary.
Although The Alamo fell in the early morning of March 6, 1836, the death of the Alamo defenders has come to symbolize courage and sacrifice for the cause of liberty....
These are the men and women across the centuries who shaped the history of the land, and through their voices a poignant human drama unfolds.
Populated by larger-than-life characters--including Davy Crockett, James Bowie, William Barret Travis--this is a stirring story of audacity, valor, and redemption.
Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution James E. Crisp. New Narratives in American History Series Editors James West Davidson Michael B. Stoff Sleuthing the Alamo Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other ...
A full-scale fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo bristles with historical figures, including Jim Bowie, Santa Anna, and Davy Crockett, among others, as it provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the ...