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Book Synopsis Defiance! a Saga of David Crockett and the Alamo by : James Charles Bouffard
Download or read book Defiance! a Saga of David Crockett and the Alamo written by James Charles Bouffard and published by Lynn Paulo Fndtn. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1835, David Crockett's political career crumbled and he left Tennessee in search of a new homestead in Texas. But signs of war with Mexico brought him to San Antonio de Bexar, where he died in a defiant determination to live up to his legend. This singular gesture outstripped everything his bureaucratic promoters did to extend his reputation for fearlessness and integrity, leaving the final and most decisive act of legend entirely his own.
Book Synopsis Defiance! a Saga of David Crockett and the Alamo by : Psy D Ph D James Charles Bouffard
Download or read book Defiance! a Saga of David Crockett and the Alamo written by Psy D Ph D James Charles Bouffard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1835, David Crockett's political career crumbled and he left Tennessee in search of a new homestead in Texas. But signs of war with Mexico brought him to San Antonio de Bexar, where he died in a defiant determination to live up to his legend. This singular gesture outstripped everything his bureaucratic promoters did to extend his reputation for fearlessness and integrity, leaving the final and most decisive act of legend entirely his own." This work takes you from his ancestral beginnings to his birth and early adventures; to the Creek War; to his sadness and Congress - all the way to the Alamo and beyond... It also answers two compelling questions: When did "Davy" start calling himself David? And did he surrender at the Alamo?...Also learn: How David's first wife, Polly, died... Who suggested Travis and Bowie as co-commanders of the Alamo... How many defenders really died in the final assault. And much more... Illustrated with period paintings, maps and photographs.
Book Synopsis Defiance! a Saga of David Crockett and the Alamo - Third Edition by : Psy D. Ph. D. James Charles Bouffard
Download or read book Defiance! a Saga of David Crockett and the Alamo - Third Edition written by Psy D. Ph. D. James Charles Bouffard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1835, David Crockett's political career crumbled and he left Tennessee in search of a new homestead in Texas. But signs of war with Mexico brought him to San Antonio de Bexar, where he died in a defiant determination to live up to his legend. This singular gesture outstripped everything his bureaucratic promoters did to extend his reputation for fearlessness and integrity, leaving the final and most decisive act of legend entirely his own. This work takes you from his ancestral beginnings to his birth and early adventures; to the Creek War; to his sadness and Congress - all the way to the Alamo and beyond...It also answers two compelling questions: When did Davy start calling himself David? And did he surrender at the Alamo?...Also learn: How David's first wife, Polly, died...Who suggested Travis and Bowie as co-commanders of the Alamo...How many defenders really died in the final assault. And much more...Illustrated with period paintings, maps and photographs.
Book Synopsis Jackson, Crockett and Houston on the American Frontier by : Paul Williams
Download or read book Jackson, Crockett and Houston on the American Frontier written by Paul Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1813 storming of Fort Mims by Creek Indians brought to light the careers of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston. All three fought the Creeks and each would have his part to play two decades later when the Alamo was stormed during the fight for Texan independence from Mexico. President Jackson was the first head of state to recognize the fledgling Republic of Texas. Colonel Crockett would be enshrined as a folk hero for his stand at the Alamo. General Houston won Texan independence at San Jacinto in 1836. This book tells the stories of the two landmark battles--at Fort Mims and the Alamo--and the interwoven lives of Jackson, Crockett and Houston, three of the most fascinating men in American history.
Book Synopsis My Little Book of Thoughts by : James Charles Bouffard, Psy.D., Ph.D.
Download or read book My Little Book of Thoughts written by James Charles Bouffard, Psy.D., Ph.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As life goes on. We think. We think of our past, our present, and our future. Some are deep thoughts; others, not so much... The substance of this work first appeared in my scribbled notes over time, as I sat at me desk in the darkened clinic of over thirty years ago... The experiences gained since have served to strengthen the subjective thoughts laid down so long ago.
Book Synopsis The Entrepreneurial Ben Franklin - Fourth Edition by : Psy D Ph D James Charles Bouffard
Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Ben Franklin - Fourth Edition written by Psy D Ph D James Charles Bouffard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin ended his days as a beloved statesman and diplomat.... But what we are about to unfold is the story of Ben Franklin, the entrepreneur. A young man, not so dearly loved at times, who fought his way to the top commencing with little.... From his youth in Boston to his middle years in Philadelphia, he plied himself ever upward.... Often labeled a "money-grubber" by his competitors, he philosophically shook off the insult to cheerfully take away their patrons, as they were trying to take away his.... Still, belied by an outward appearance of avarice during the early days in his career, he had an inner earnestness to do his fellow man well, which surfaced as his affluence grew. "A rich rogue," he would quote in the first issue of Poor Richard's Almanack in 1733, "is like a fat hog, who never does good until dead as a log." Of his final belief in this, we shall observe in these pages....Illustrated with period drawings, artwork and paintings.
Book Synopsis How to Use Psychology for Business Success by : James Charles Bouffard, Psy.D., Ph.D.
Download or read book How to Use Psychology for Business Success written by James Charles Bouffard, Psy.D., Ph.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All human beings are born with a mind capableof some measure of success. No matter the size of the measure, anything above total failure is success! Therefore, I beseech you to banish all negative thoughts; to be replaced by a positive, success-laden attitude. And allow me, if youwill, a new twist to an old dictum: "Failures are not people who have failed at something. Failures are people who have stopped trying anything!"....How to Use Psychology for Business Success is written for the employee, the self-employed, and those wishing self-employment. Emphasis is placed on making a success of whatever your calling through positive thinking, through experience, and through the art of dealing with people toyour best advantage....Not everyone wants to be an employee; not everyonewants to be, or can be, self-employed. Nevertheless, everyone can be a success!
Book Synopsis Doc Jim's Book of Who Cares!? by : James Charles Bouffard
Download or read book Doc Jim's Book of Who Cares!? written by James Charles Bouffard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sit back, dear reader, and open your mind to a world you may have once dismissed with an utterance of "Who cares!?" whenever the word "trivia" was mentioned... This work is not a modest collection of trivial data filched from an Internet search, since information of this type is not altogether accurate. Nor does it lean on circumstances thought true for years, yet found unreliable under tight examination... Rather, the author has thoroughly researched each piece of trivia enclosed within these pages, sourcing many with dates, records, photos and period artwork for the most accurate of obtainable facts... Whether or not you respect that awesome word "tivia" after reading this little volume, wouldn't it be nice to take home a lot of extra money because you knew something someone else didn't?
Book Synopsis A Quest for Absolute Power by : James Charles Bouffard
Download or read book A Quest for Absolute Power written by James Charles Bouffard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very beginning man has struggled for truth through some form of religion. Unfortunately, one accepted creed traveled through time unacceptable to any basic truth. This religion had long ago accepted man's thoughts over God's, creating its own form of worship. This was often a deceptive, if not clearly a dishonest route to theocentric ethics - needed in a successful search for God's Truth. Clerics and prelates waved God aside as they interpreted His meaning to benefit themselves in their quest for worldly riches - for absolute power...
Book Synopsis The Magician's Fight! by : James Charles Bouffard
Download or read book The Magician's Fight! written by James Charles Bouffard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-02-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2570 B.C.E., a man stood before the court of a king and performed miracles baffling the most learned men present. From a goose he removed the head, then restored it. Other decapitations and restorations followed until an ox was dismembered and, with a mighty incantation shaking even the heavens, was again made whole. This man was 110-year-old Dedi of Ded-Snefru. The king was Kheops, 2nd pharaoh, 4th Dynasty Egypt. Centuries passed. Times changed. Magic darkened synonymous with witchcraft. Sleight of hand performers, once hailed by royalty and immortalized through song and verse, were now cursed as the Devil's own... The dark ages for magic had begun! Illustrated with period facsimiles and photographs.
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Book Synopsis Legends of the Frontier by : Charles River Charles River Editors
Download or read book Legends of the Frontier written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Discusses some of the legends and controversies surrounding the lives and deaths of the three frontier legends. *Includes the story about Crockett's famous Not Yours To Give speech, and the debate over whether he actually gave it. *Includes pictures of Boone, Bowie, Crockett and other important people and places in their lives. *Includes a Bibliography on each man for further reading. The Wild West and the frontier have long held a special place in the narrative of American history, and all of the legends and folk heroes who lived in the 19th century owe their reputation to the original American frontier folk hero, Daniel Boone. Boone was literally a trailblazer: the legendary pioneer established his Wilderness Road by striking west into present-day Kentucky and establishing Boonesborough, one of the earliest white settlements west of the Appalachians. Hundreds of thousands of settlers would follow his path by the end of the 18th century. While that was an important and proud legacy for the former Revolutionary War militiaman and Virginia State Assemblyman, Boone became known for the outsized tales and adventures associated with his foray into the frontier. Far and wide, people spoke of Boone's expert marksmanship, his encounters with wild bears, and his hardscrabble frontier life, making him a living legend and the prototypical Western frontier folk hero in America. Following right in Boone's path was "The King of the Wild Frontier," Davy Crockett. Also a living legend in his own life. Crockett was a hardscrabble frontiersman who could spin a good yarn but who also took a no-nonsense approach that brought him from the backwoods of Tennessee to the halls of Congress. Though he served during the presidency of another Westerner, Andrew Jackson, Crockett was very much his own man, and he was distrustful of other politicians, a sentiment that has only endeared him further to subsequent generations of Americans. Jim Bowie he was known across America in his lifetime for a controversy other than the Battle of the Alamo. In what became known as the notorious Sandbar Fight of 1827, a duel between two men turned into a large fight that included Bowie, who was shot and stabbed during the melee but still managed to stab to death the sheriff of Rapides Parish in Louisiana with a large knife that has since become universally known as the Bowie knife. Jim Bowie was famous in his lifetime, but like Crockett it was his death in Texas that made him an American legend. Though there is still some mystery and controversy surrounding exactly what transpired at the Battle of the Alamo, the deaths of Crockett, Bowie, William B. Travis and the rest of the defenders at the hands of Santa Anna's Mexican soldiers became a symbol of sacrifice and defiance, and the battle itself became a rallying cry throughout the rest of Texas' War for Independence. Naturally, it also cemented the legacies of both Bowie and Crockett as well. Legends of the Frontier chronicles the life, myths and legends of the three frontier legends, examining the known and unknown in an attempt to separate fact from fiction. Along with pictures of important people and places, you will learn about Boone, Crockett and Bowie like you never have before, in no time at all.
Book Synopsis Born on a Mountaintop by : Bob Thompson
Download or read book Born on a Mountaintop written by Bob Thompson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife as he delves deep into our love for an American icon. In the road-trip tradition of Sarah Vowell and Tony Horwitz, Thompson follows Crockett's footsteps from his birthplace in east Tennessee to Washington, where he served three terms in Congress, and on to Texas and the gates of the Alamo, seeking out those who know, love, and are still willing to fight over Davy's life and legacy. Born on a Mountaintop is more than just a bold new biography of one of the great American heroes. Thompson's rich mix of scholarship, reportage, humor, and exploration of modern Crockett landscapes bring Davy Crockett's impact on the American imagination vividly to life.
Book Synopsis The Gates of the Alamo by : Stephen Harrigan
Download or read book The Gates of the Alamo written by Stephen Harrigan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Blood of Heroes by : James Donovan
Download or read book The Blood of Heroes written by James Donovan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed a final assault. The defenders fought valiantly-for their lives and for a free and independent Texas-but in the end, they were all slaughtered. Their ultimate sacrifice inspired the rallying cry "Remember the Alamo!" and eventual triumph. Exhaustively researched, and drawing upon fresh primary sources in U.S. and Mexican archives, The Blood of Heros is the definitive account of this epic battle. Populated by larger-than-life characters -- including Davy Crockett, James Bowie, William Barret Travis -- this is a stirring story of audacity, valor, and redemption.
Download or read book Last Stands written by Michael Walsh and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A philosophical and spiritual defense of the premodern world, of the tragic view, of physical courage, and of masculinity and self-sacrifice in an age when those ancient virtues are too often caricatured and dismissed." —Victor Davis Hanson Award-winning author Michael Walsh celebrates the masculine attributes of heroism that forged American civilization and Western culture by exploring historical battles in which soldiers chose death over dishonor in Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost. In our contemporary era, men are increasingly denied their heritage as warriors. A survival instinct that’s part of the human condition, the drive to wage war is natural. Without war, the United States would not exist. The technology that has eased manual labor, extended lifespans, and become an integral part of our lives and culture has often evolved from wartime scientific advancements. War is necessary to defend the social and political principles that define the virtues and freedoms of America and other Western nations. We should not be ashamed of the heroes who sacrificed their lives to build a better world. We should be honoring them. The son of a Korean War veteran of the Inchon landing and the battle of the Chosin Reservoir with the U.S. Marine Corps, Michael Walsh knows all about heroism, valor, and the call of duty that requires men to fight for something greater than themselves to protect their families, fellow countrymen, and most of all their fellow soldiers. In Last Stands, Walsh reveals the causes and outcomes of more than a dozen battles in which a small fighting force refused to surrender to a far larger force, often dying to the last man. From the Spartans’ defiance at Thermopylae and Roland’s epic defense of Charlemagne’s rear guard at Ronceveaux Pass, through Santa Anna’s siege of the Alamo defended by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie to the skirmish at Little Big Horn between Crazy Horse’s Sioux nation and George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Calvary, to the Soviets’ titanic struggle against the German Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, and more, Walsh reminds us all of the debt we owe to heroes willing to risk their lives against overwhelming odds—and how these sacrifices and battles are not only a part of military history but our common civilizational heritage.
Book Synopsis Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers by : Brian Kilmeade
Download or read book Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers written by Brian Kilmeade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue. In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting, American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, along with other Americans who had moved to Texas looking for a fresh start. It was a crushing blow to Texas’s fight for freedom. But the story doesn’t end there. The defeat galvanized the Texian settlers, and under General Sam Houston’s leadership they rallied. Six weeks after the Alamo, Houston and his band of settlers defeated Santa Anna’s army in a shocking victory, winning the independence for which so many had died. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers recaptures this pivotal war that changed America forever, and sheds light on the tightrope all war heroes walk between courage and calculation. Thanks to Kilmeade’s storytelling, a new generation of readers will remember the Alamo—and recognize the lesser known heroes who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
Download or read book Midwest Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
