The Gates of the Alamo

Author: Stephen Harrigan
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0141000023

The Gates of the Alamo

A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo in 1836--an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history--The Gates of the Alamo follows the lives of three people whose fates become bound to the now-fabled Texas fort: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; the resourceful, widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love leads him instead to war, and into the crucible of the Alamo. Get The Gates of the Alamo literature books for free.
The story unfolds with vivid immediacy and describes the pivotal battle from the perspective of the Mexican attackers as well as the American defenders. Fill Check The Gates of the Alamo our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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