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Author : Morton Simms Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Maid of the Alamo written by Morton Simms Watts and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morton Simms Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Maid of the Alamo written by Morton Simms Watts and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morton Simms Watts
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781343455009
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Maid of the Alamo written by Morton Simms Watts and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frank Thompson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461734355
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The Alamo written by Frank Thompson and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two short weeks under siege, the climactic battle of the Alamo lasted under an hour, but its aftermath spawned a legend. The Alamo: A Cultural History explores the transformation of the fort from its 1718 inception as a Franciscan mission to its current status as a tourist attraction, historical monument, and international symbol of freedom.
Author : Holly Beachley Brear
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292763239
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Inherit the Alamo written by Holly Beachley Brear and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charles D. Hudgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maid of San Jacinto written by Charles D. Hudgins and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt Chandler
Publisher : Capstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1496690303
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)
Download or read book The Alamo's Ghosts and Other Hauntings of San Antonio, Texas written by Matt Chandler and published by Capstone Press. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many lives were lost in the Battle of the Alamo. Are the spirits of these brave fighters now haunting modern-day San Antonio, Texas? What other ghosts could be joining them? Discover the ghosts and haunted places of this historic Texas town. Between these pages, readers will find just the right amount of scariness for a cold, dark night.
Author : James E. Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199755809
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Sleuthing the Alamo written by James E. Crisp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past two centuries. Beginning with a very personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that he encountered in the Texas of his youth, Crisp traces his path to the discovery of documents distorted, censored, and ignored--documents which reveal long-silenced voices from the Texan past. In each of four chapters focusing on specific documentary "finds," Crisp uncovers the clues that led to these archival discoveries. Along the way, the cast of characters expands to include: a prominent historian who tried to walk away from his first book; an unlikely teenaged "speechwriter" for General Sam Houston; three eyewitnesses to the death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo; a desperate inmate of Mexico City's Inquisition Prison, whose scribbled memoir of the war in Texas is now listed in the Guiness Book of World Records; and the stealthy slasher of the most famous historical painting in Texas. In his afterword, Crisp explores the evidence behind the mythic "Yellow Rose of Texas" and examines some of the powerful forces at work in silencing the very voices from the past that we most need to hear today. Here then is an engaging first-person account of historical detective work, illuminating the methods of the serious historian--and the motives of those who prefer glorious myth to unflattering truth.
Author : Amelia E. Barr
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Remember the Alamo written by Amelia E. Barr and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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..."
Author : Florence Weinberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737418290
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Before the Alamo written by Florence Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emilia, an illegitimate daughter born of a Native American mother and a pureblood descendant of Spanish pioneers, rejected by her father, grows up in pre-Alamo San Antonio. Precocious, she learns to read, serves as maid and ultimately helper for the city council, and falls in love with a mestizo boy. She is a witness to the influx of Anglo settlers, flooding underpopulated Texas (still Mexico) and bringing their slaves--although this is illegal in Mexico. She meets and likes an Anglo youth who wants to be a doctor like his father. Later, during a cholera epidemic, he returns as a physician and teaches her nursing. Her mestizo boyfriend, now her husband, joins the defenders of the Alamo and is killed while she is also present as nurse. The Anglo doctor rescues her as she continues nursing wounded soldiers after the battle. She ultimately marries the doctor and has two boys with him.
Author : Pam Pollack
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698159721
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book What Was the Alamo? written by Pam Pollack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : William S. Heavenhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Siege of the Alamo written by William S. Heavenhill and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Medler
Publisher : Quatrain by John Medler
ISBN 13 : 1458158985
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Quatrain written by John Medler and published by Quatrain by John Medler. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1557, Nostradamus published a collection of four-line rhyming prophetic verses called Squatrains. The initial collection was supposed to have 1000 prophecies. However, only 942 survived--until now. Can a cynical college professor and his two rebellious teenagers find the 58 lost prophecies of Nostradamus and use them to stop an impending terrorist attack, and will anyone believe them?
Author : John Myers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803257795
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Alamo written by John Myers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1935149520
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Exodus from the Alamo written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning historian provides a provocative new analysis of the Battle of the Alamo—including new information on the fate of Davy Crockett. Contrary to legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo during the Texan Revolution died in a merciless predawn attack by Mexican soldiers. With extensive research into recently discovered Mexican accounts, as well as forensic evidence, historian Phillip Tucker sheds new light on the famous battle, contending that the traditional myth is even more off-base than we thought. In a startling revelation, Tucker uncovers that the primary fights took place on the plain outside the fort. While a number of the Alamo’s defenders hung on inside, most died while attempting to escape. Capt. Dickinson, with cannon atop the chapel, fired repeatedly into the throng of enemy cavalry until he was finally cut down. The controversy surrounding Davy Crockett still remains, though the recently authenticated diary of the Mexican Col. José Enrique de la Peña offers evidence that he surrendered. Notoriously, Mexican Pres. Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna burned the bodies of the Texans who had dared stand against him. As this book proves in thorough detail, the funeral pyres were well outside the fort—that is, where the two separate groups of escapees fell on the plain, rather than in the Alamo itself.
Author : Frank Templeton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Margaret Ballentine, Or, The Fall of the Alamo written by Frank Templeton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Tod Gilliam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Rose Croix written by David Tod Gilliam and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
