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Book Synopsis William Barrett Travis by : Archie McDonald
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.
Book Synopsis William Barret Travis by : Robert E. Hollmann
Download or read book William Barret Travis written by Robert E. Hollmann and published by . This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Roads to the Alamo by : William C. Davis
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.
Book Synopsis William Barret Travis by : Jean Flynn
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.
Book Synopsis Forget the Alamo by : Bryan Burrough
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.
Book Synopsis Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend by : Ron J. Jackson
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"--
Book Synopsis The Diary of William Barret Travis by : William Barret Travis
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."
Book Synopsis William Barret Travis (1809-1836). by :
Download or read book William Barret Travis (1809-1836). written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lone Star Junction presents a biographical sketch of the American lawyer and soldier William Barret Travis (1809-1836), who was in command of the Texas force during the Siege and Battle of the Alamo. His appeal from the Alamo for reinforcements became an American symbol of heroism. The Texans were killed by the Mexican army under the command of the Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876) on March 6, 1836. Lone Star Junction provides a portrait of Travis.
Download or read book Victory Or Death written by Edith Pollitz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the commander who led a rag-tag army of freedom fighters bent on defending liberty in a battle for Texas independence at the Alamo in 1836. But as he sees the memory of his ghost confronted by hordes of haphazard historians bent on his destruction, William Barret "Buck" Travis finds himself and everything he stood for under fire. Through some freakish fracture in time, he is transformed into modern day San Antonio to face a revisionist future that questions both his mission and motives for leading the battle that cost all who fought in it their lives. Can Lori, a fair-minded beauty and self-driven historian and reenactor, help him navigate past forces set on destroying his legacy, even as he tumbles headlong between historic past and uncharted future, triggered unwittingly by the drop of a hat or ringing of a re-enactor's musket? "Victory Or Death: Alamo Reprise" is a taut historical fantasy from the creative mind of Edith Elizabeth Pollitz that explores the relevancy of what transpired during the famous battle for Texas in 1836 through the eyes of today's revisionist culture. Can Travis withstand the scathing scrutiny that confronts him? Or are he and those who fought under his command to be buried unceremoniously in the annals of history by the very descendants of those for whom they fought and died? The line is drawn: Victory or Death awaits. ~Ned Anthony Huthmacher, author of the Alamo novel "One Domingo Morning" and moderator for the John Wayne THE ALAMO forum.~
Book Synopsis William Barret Travis Letter from the Alamo by : William Barret Travis
Download or read book William Barret Travis Letter from the Alamo written by William Barret Travis and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document, written by Commander William B. Travis, dated February 24, 1836, and signed "Victory or Death," is the one that has come to be known simply as "The Travis Letter" among the other missives issued by Travis from the Alamo. Travis called for reinforcements with this heroic message, carried from the Alamo by Captain Albert Martin of Gonzales and passed to Lancelot Smither, both of whom added notes to the letter. Smither delivered this appeal to the citizens' committee in San Felipe, where several copies were made, and transcripts of the letter began to appear in newspapers as early as March 2. Santa Anna's troops broke through on March 6, and all of the defenders of the Alamo died. This document has been digitized and is part of the Texas Digital Archive.
Book Synopsis Boys' Book of Border Battles by : Edwin Legrand Sabin
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:
Book Synopsis Lone Star Rising by : William C. Davis
Download or read book Lone Star Rising written by William C. Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2004.
Book Synopsis William Barret Travis: His Sword and His Pen by : Martha Anne Turner
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 :Daughters of the Republic of Texas. William Barret Travis Chapter (Austin, Tex.) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :11 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (689 download)
Book Synopsis History of William Barret Travis Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 1892-1966 by : Daughters of the Republic of Texas. William Barret Travis Chapter (Austin, Tex.)
Download or read book History of William Barret Travis Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 1892-1966 written by Daughters of the Republic of Texas. William Barret Travis Chapter (Austin, Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Book Synopsis William Barret Travis, His Life and Letters by : Ruby Mixon
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:
Book Synopsis The Battle of the Alamo by : Ben H. Procter
Download or read book The Battle of the Alamo written by Ben H. Procter and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo—Bowie, Travis, and Crockett—and the course and outcome of the battle itself. This concise and engaging account of a turning point in Texas history will appeal to students, teachers, historians, and general readers alike.
