13 days to glory : the siege of the Alamo /

Tinkle, Lon.

13 days to glory : the siege of the Alamo / by Lon Tinkle. - College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c1985. - 255 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Originally published; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958. Thirteen days to glory.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-252).

A day-to-day chronological investigation of the siege of the Alamo in 1836, discussing the circumstances that led each person to be inside the abandoned mission during the battle that claimed the life of frontiersman Davy Crockett.

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Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Siege, 1836.
Texas--History--Revolution, 1835-1836.

F390 / .T5 1985

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