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13 Days to Glory The Siege of the Alamo by Lon Tinkle |
"Few of them had sterling pasts, but all made up a chapter of history that has come to define heroism."
—Southern Living
In thirteen chapters, Lon Tinkle tells the day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle for Texas but won for their cause an almost unparalleled measure of fame.
13 Days to Glory
The Siege of the Alamo
by Lon Tinkle
"Few of them had sterling pasts, but all made up a chapter of history that has come to define heroism."—Southern Living
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 Dickerson, 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. Col. William Barret Travis left Alabama under a cloud, having privately admitted to committing a murder. Jim Bowie, having lost his wife, children, and wealthy in-laws to a cholera epidemic, turned his energies to saving his extensive landholdings in Texas. Davy 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 includes a chronology of events from June 30, 1835, when Travis drives out the Mexican garrison opposite Galveston, to February 23, 1836, when the siege of the Alamo begins.
The late LON TINKLE was book editor of the Dallas Morning News and a professor of French and comparative literature at Southern Methodist University.
A Southwest Landmark: Number Two
13 Days to Glory
0-89096-707-5 paper $12.95
LC 85-40043. 5 1/2 x 8. 262 pp. 9 b&w illus.
Texas History.
Publication Date: February 1996.
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