Book Description
Profiles the defenders, enemy soldiers, and innocent bystanders and tells the story of the Texas defeat in alphabet format.
Author : William R. Chemerka
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1455614610
Profiles the defenders, enemy soldiers, and innocent bystanders and tells the story of the Texas defeat in alphabet format.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1438128126
Discusses how in 1836, a small group of defenders at the Alamo fought to the death against thousands of Mexican soldiers during the Texas Revolution.
Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 198488011X
A New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. 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 century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.
Author : William R. Chemerka
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781455618354
Davy Crockett's life on the frontier, accomplishments as a soldier, and career as a politician are expertly detailed through the letters of the alphabet. In entries such as A is for Alamo; K is for Benjamin Kitchen, Crockett's first schoolmaster; and B is for Betsy, the name of his famous rifle, Crockett comes to life in this biography for young readers. Complete with a timeline of important events in Crockett's life and vibrant illustrations, this read is a must for young students of the legendary man.
Author : Pam Pollack
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0698159721
"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, young readers will relive this famous moment in Texas history.
Author : Todd Hansen
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811700603
If everyone was killed inside the Alamo, how do we know what happened? This surprisingly simple question was the genesis for Todd Hansen's compendium of source material on the subject, "The Alamo Reader". Utilising obscure and rare sources along with key documents never before published, Hansen carefully balances the accounts against one another, culminating in the definitive resource for Alamo history.
Author : William W. Lace
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560064503
An historical account of the first major battle in North America between the cultures of the United States, with its mainly British tradition, and that of Mexico, with its history of Spanish rule.
Author : Mary Ann Hoffman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615325018
Readers will be exclaiming "Remember the Alamo!" after reading this rousing and informative account of the most famous of the Texas missions. In addition to the chronological history of the Alamo, readers will enjoy frequent biographical sidebars of American legends such as Davy Crockett and William Barrett Travis.
Author : J. R. Edmondson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2000-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0585241066
J.R Edmondson's The Alamo Story: From Early History to Current Conflicts is the millennium's first book to thoroughly examine the famous "Shrine of Texas Liberty" from its origin as a Spanish New World mission to its modern status.
Author : John Myers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803257795
"The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary, partly hearsay and at best fragmentary. It has been left to John Myers Myers to present an exhaustively researched book which reveals the chronicle of the siege of the Alamo in an entirely different light. . . . Myers' story will stand as the best that has yet been written on the Alamo. . . . It's a classic."-Boston Post "Here is a historian with the vitality and drive to match his subject. A reporter of the first rank, he can clothe the dry bones of history with the living stuff of which today's news is made."-Chicago Tribune John Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books.