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Author : Ruby Mixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)
Download or read book William Barret Travis, His Life and Letters written by Ruby Mixon and published by . This book was released on 1930* with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Barret Travis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Diary of William Barret Travis written by William Barret Travis and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DIARY OF WILLIAM BARRET TRAVIS is an importrant contribution to Texas history. Ordinarily, honor and antiquity tend to cloak the heroes of any people in garments of immortality, shading out the human weakness of men exalted by history. Thus legend grows around only a kernel of truth. No legend is needed to place Travis among courageous men. History supports the thesis that Travis was a man of incisive intelligence and endaunted purpose. Thus the publication of the TRAVIS DIARY supports the theme of his letters from the Alamo. In the routine of daily Texas life fefore the war for independence, Travis would show the indomitable character seen in his defense of the Alamo. Noting in his diary on March 9,1834 that he started for Mill Creek, Travis continued " ... that waters all swimming & prarie so boggy--could not go--The first time I ever turned back in my life."
Author : Archie McDonald
Publisher : Eakin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781681792392
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)
Download or read book William Barrett Travis written by Archie McDonald and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the twenty-six-year-old lawyer who commanded Texas' most famous garrison for thirteen incredible days and penned the words, "I shall never retreat or surrender-victory or death."William Barrett Travis is the first scholarly biography of the legendary Alamo commander. Historian Archie P. McDonald treats his subject not merely as a god-like hero, but as the complete human being that he was. The result is an in-depth study that searches for an understanding of Travis' character and multifaceted personality. The result is an exciting and entertaining, but above all contemplative analysis of Travis and the Texas War for Independence.
Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061754072
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Three Roads to the Alamo written by William C. Davis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. Oates Three Roads to the Alamois 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 battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle.
Download or read book Letter of William Barret Travis from the Alamo, 1836 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron J. Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149604
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend written by Ron J. Jackson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the fifty or so Texan survivors of the siege of the Alamo was Joe, the personal slave of Lt. Col. William Barret Travis. First interrogated by Santa Anna, Joe was allowed to depart (along with Susana Dickinson) and eventually made his way to the seat of the revolutionary government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Joe was then returned to the Travis estate in Columbia, Texas, near the coast. He escaped in 1837 and was never captured. Ron J. Jackson and Lee White have meticulously researched plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, personal letters, and court documents to fill in the gaps of Joe's story. "Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend" provides not only a recovered biography of an individual lost to history, but also offers a fresh vantage point from which to view the events of the Texas Revolution"--
Author : Martha Anne Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book William Barret Travis: His Sword and His Pen written by Martha Anne Turner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of William Barret Travis, commander of the Alamo.
Author : Jean Flynn
Publisher : Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780890153482
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (534 download)
Download or read book William Barret Travis written by Jean Flynn and published by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. This book was released on 1982-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of one of Texas' best known heroes, the commander of a small band of Texans who died in the Alamo.
Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525431810
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
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.
Author : Edwin Legrand Sabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Boys' Book of Border Battles written by Edwin Legrand Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 198488011X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Forget the Alamo written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Todd Hansen
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811700603
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Alamo Reader written by Todd Hansen and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Walter Lord
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453238441
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book A Time to Stand written by Walter Lord and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Margaret Cousins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931722264
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Boy in the Alamo written by Margaret Cousins and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retelling of a classic story of the siege of the Alamo told from the unique viewpoint of a 12-year old boy.
Author : Grace W. Travis
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781604412468
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Lieutenant Colonel William Barret Travis written by Grace W. Travis and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: aVictory or Death.a It has been said, aLittle is known about William Barret Travis, who sacrificed his life at the Alamo.a With this book written by a family member, I believe the world will know more about Travis than any other American hero. The Travis family is revealed in detail from 1066 in England when the first ancestor came as chief of the Norman army to the Battle of Hastings with William the Conqueror, who won the crown of England. This book connects William Barret Travis with the first ancestor to come to America at Jamestown, Virginia. The book follows the family with details of marriages, wills, deaths and more. It tells of Travisas education, marriage, births of children, names and births and deaths of his siblings, his going to Texas, letters to Governor Smith and pleas for help, all the way to his last letter, aTake care of my little boy, a and Sam Houstonas armyas cries of vengeance, aRemember the Alamo.a
Author : Thomas Winthrop Streeter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Texas, 1795-1845: Texas imprints, 1817-1845. 2 v written by Thomas Winthrop Streeter and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Donovan
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316202541
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
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.
