Remember the Alamo (Western Novel)

Remember the Alamo (Western Novel)
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"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…"

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Amelia E. Barr. Remember the Alamo (Western Novel)

Remember the Alamo (Western Novel)

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE CITY IN THE WILDERNESS

CHAPTER II. ANTONIA AND ISABEL

CHAPTER III. BUILDERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH

CHAPTER IV. THE SHINING BANDS OF LOVE

CHAPTER V. A FAMOUS BARBECUE

CHAPTER VI. ROBERT WORTH IS DISARMED

CHAPTER VII. A MEETING AT MIDNIGHT

CHAPTER VIII. MOTHER AND PRIEST

CHAPTER IX. THE STORMING OF THE ALAMO

CHAPTER X. THE DOCTOR AND THE PRIEST

CHAPTER XI. A HAPPY TRUCE

CHAPTER XII. DANGER AND HELP

CHAPTER XIII. THE ARRIVAL OF SANTA ANNA

CHAPTER XIV. THE FALL OF THE ALAMO

CHAPTER XV. GOLIAD

CHAPTER XVI. THE LOADSTONE IN THE BREAST

CHAPTER XVII. HOME AGAIN

CHAPTER XVIII. UNDER ONE FLAG

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“That was a step in the right direction; but I am astonished the viceroy sanctioned it.”

“Apodoca, who was then viceroy, was a Spaniard of the proudest type. He had very much the same contempt for the Mexicans that an old English viceroy in New York had for the colonists he was sent to govern. I dare say any of them would have permitted three hundred German families to settle in some part of British America, as far from New York as Texas is from Mexico. I do not need to tell you that Austin’s colonists are a band of choice spirits, hardy working men, trained in the district schools of New England and New York—nearly every one of them a farmer or mechanic.”

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