Author : Lisa Waller Rogers
Publisher : W. S. Benson
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Provides a fictionalized account of Andrea Castanon Villanueva who helped the American soldiers defend the Alamo during the war against Mexico.
Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525431810
A New York Times bestselling novel, modern historical classic, and winner of the TCU Texas Book Award, The Spur Award and the Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel It’s 1836, and the Mexican province of Texas is in revolt. As General Santa Anna’s forces move closer to the small fort that will soon be legend, three people’s fates will become intrinsically tied to the coming battle: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist; the widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love has led him into the line of fire. Filled with dramatic scenes, and abounding in fictional and historical personalities—among them James Bowie, David Crockett, William Travis, and Stephen Austin—The Gates of the Alamo is a faithful and compelling look at a riveting chapter in American history.
Author : Walter Lord
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1453238441
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna’s troops at the Battle of the Alamo. Looking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering in the intense sun of a February heat wave, Colonel William Travis knew his small garrison had little chance of holding back the Mexican army. Even after a call for reinforcements brought dozens of Texans determined to fight for their fledgling republic, the cause remained hopeless. Gunpowder was scarce, food was running out, and the compound was too large to easily defend with less than two hundred soldiers. Still, given the choice, only one man opted to surrender. The rest resolved to fight and die. After thirteen days, the Mexicans charged, and the Texans were slaughtered. In exquisite detail, Walter Lord recreates the fight to uphold the Texan flag. He sheds light not just on frontier celebrities like Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, but on the ordinary soldiers who died alongside them. Though the fight ended two centuries ago, the men of the Alamo will never be forgotten.
Author : Amelia E. Barr
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"For many years there had never been any doubt in the mind of Robert Worth as to the ultimate destiny of Texas, though he was by no means an adventurer, and had come into the beautiful land by a sequence of natural and business-like events. He was born in New York. In that city he studied his profession, and in eighteen hundred and three began its practice in an office near Contoit's Hotel, opposite the City Park. One day he was summoned there to attend a sick man. His patient proved to be Don Jaime Urrea, and the rich Mexican grandee conceived a warm friendship for the young physician..."_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_
Author : Kim Wiese
Publisher : Brown Books Publishing Group
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1934812293
"Wiese presents a fresh take on the history of the Alamo, through the eyes of a young Scotswoman who proves her mettle on the Texas frontier. Through personal journal entries, Falon becomes a living, breathing legacy in the reader's heart. Falon's story is beautifully rendered." - Reviewed by Kimberley D. Harris, Christian Library Journal, Oct – Dec 2009
Author : Ray Villareal
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781558856295
When a Texas school puts on an original play about the Alamo, the students and teachers confront modern conflicts about history, identity, and the meaning of courage.
Author : Kathi Appelt
Publisher : Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1442421096
An ocelot. A slave. An angel thief. Multiple perspectives spanning across time are united through themes of freedom, hope, and faith in a most unusual and epic novel from Newbery Honor–winning author and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt. Sixteen-year-old Cade Curtis is an angel thief. After his mother’s family rejected him for being born out of wedlock, he and his dad moved to the apartment above a local antique shop. The only payment the owner Mrs. Walker requests: marble angels, stolen from graveyards, for her to sell for thousands of dollars to collectors. But there’s one angel that would be the last they’d ever need to steal; an angel, carved by a slave, with one hand open and one hand closed. If only Cade could find it… Zorra, a young ocelot, watches the bayou rush past her yearningly. The poacher who captured and caged her has long since lost her, and Zorra is getting hungrier and thirstier by the day. Trapped, she only has the sounds of the bayou for comfort—but it tells her help will come soon. Before Zorra, Achsah, a slave, watched the very same bayou with her two young daughters. After the death of her master, Achsah is free, but she’ll be damned if her daughters aren’t freed with her. All they need to do is find the church with an angel with one hand open and one hand closed… In a masterful feat, National Book Award Honoree Kathi Appelt weaves together stories across time, connected by the bayou, an angel, and the universal desire to be free.
Author : Holly Beachley Brear
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292763239
This study explores the multiple histories and mythologies of San Antonio’s famous Spanish mission and Texas Revolution battle site. The Alamo Mission still evokes tremendous feeling among many Americans, and especially among Texans. For Anglo Texans, it is the “Cradle of Texas Liberty” and a symbol of Western expansion. But Hispanic Texans increasingly view the Alamo as a stolen symbol, its origin as a Spanish mission forgotten, its famous defeat used to rob Hispanics of their place in Texas history. In this study, Holly Beachley Brear explores what the Alamo means to the numerous groups that lay claim to its heritage. Brear shows how—and why—Alamo myths often diverge from the historical facts. She decodes the agendas of various groups, including the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (who maintain the site), the Order of the Alamo, the Texas Cavaliers, and LULAC. She also probes attempts by individuals and groups to rewrite the Alamo myth to include more positive roles for themselves. With new perspectives on all the sacred icons of the Alamo and the Fiesta that celebrates (one version of) its history each year, Inherit the Alamo challenges stereotypes and offers a new understanding of the Alamo’s ongoing role in shaping Texas and American history and mythology.
Author : Pam Pollack
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0448467100
"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 : 20,40 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.
