Five o'clock a.m., March 6, 1836. A piercing bugle blast broke the Texas dawn. Immediately, other Mexican buglers on all sides of the Alamo answered the signal. Inside the fortress, William B. Travis yelled to his men, "Come on, boys! The Mexicans are upon us. Don't surrender. Let's give 'em hell!"    By 6:40 that morning the battle was over. All 187 defenders of the Alamo lay dead inside the battered adobe walls. But, as one of the Mexican officers remarked, "Another victory like this one and it will be the death of us!" More than 1,000 of General Lopez de Santa Anna's 5,000 soldiers had been killed or wounded before Travis and his "valiant few" fell.    This stirring account of the Texas war for independence from Mexico focuses on the fateful thirteen-day siege of the Alamo. Placing that famous battle in historical context, the book gives young readers an exciting picture of the skirmishes that preceded it and the ultimate Texas victory five weeks later on the plain of San Jacinto. It was there that Sam Houston's forces, seeking vengeance for the ruthless massacre of Travis's men, coined the famous battle cry "Remember the Alamo!"    Young people will find the author's description of the cast of characters in this dramatic battle as compelling as the action itself. Opposing the arrogant dictator Santa Anna, self-styled "Napoleon of the West," were such American heroes as Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Jim Bonham, and other rawboned, fighting frontiersmen who chose to give up their lives rather than desert the cause of freedom.    The author has provided a chronology which pinpoints important events in Texas history, from 1803 through September, 1836, when the Texas constitution was ratified. A gallery of historic engravings and paintings handsomely illustrates the book, and seven panoramic maps give a clear view of Santa Anna's strategy and the defenders' positions.

Valiant Few: Crisis at The Alamo

Tinkle, Lon

In thirteen chapters, Lon Tinkle tells the day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won for their cause an almost unparalleled measure of fame.The familiar figures appear on these pages: stern young Colonel William Barret Travis; the middle-aged fighter Jim Bowie, who contested the young upstart’s comand; famous frontiersman Davy Crockett, soon to have his stock in legend rise even higher. Echoing the shot heard round the world in 1776, the volleys fired by the Alamo defenders were aimed at the large and well-outfitted army of Santa Anna, self-styled Napoleon of the West.”As the days of the siege are described, the author cinematically flashes back to pivotal points of destinythe circumstance that led each person to be inside the walls of the abandoned mission late in the winter of 1836. Susanna Dickinson, captured after the mission fell, recalls the day she headed for a wedding and wound up eloping to Texas with the intended groom, an old flame of her own. Travis left Alabama under a cloud, having privately admitted to committing a murder. Bowie, having lost his wife, children, and wealthy in-laws to a cholera epidemic, now devoted his energies to saving his extensive landholdings in Texas. Crockett, stung by the loss of his seat in Congress, concluded to light out for the territory of Texas, where land prices were one-tenth of those in America but where American frontier traditions again had to be secured through revolution.Thoroughly documented, 13 Days to Glory also includes a chronology of events from June 30, 1835, when William Barret Travis, under a secret pact with Anglo leaders at San Felipe de Austin, drove out the new Mexican garrison opposite Galveston, to February 23, 1836, when the thirteen-day siege of the Alamo began.

Thirteen Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo

History

Americas

McGraw=Hill

<p>J. Frank Dobie, raised in the work of his father, a ranch man, soon turned to teaching and writing, becoming a noted chronicler, philosopher, and folklorist of the Southwest</p>

An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ of Texas Pr

<p>Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the spine stamped in silver.. Ex library.</p>

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Little,Brown

The Alamo

Signet

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