Beyond the Alamo (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
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Page : 406 pages
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ISBN : 1458722651
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Page : 406 pages
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Page : 334 pages
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ISBN : 1458722643
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Page : 366 pages
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ISBN : 145873076X
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Page : 566 pages
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ISBN : 145872266X
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Page : 478 pages
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ISBN : 1458721809
Author : John Myers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,21 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.
Author : Alamo Book Publishing Co
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Texas
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Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1984880101
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 : Melodie A. Cuate
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780896725928
When the new seventh-grade history teacher brings a mysterious trunk to class, Jackie, Hannah, and her brother Nick find themselves transported to the Alamo, where they experience the famous siege first-hand.
Author : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781407622941