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The gates of the Alamo / a novel by Stephen Harrigan.
LIBRA - Special PS3558.A626 G38 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrigan, Stephen, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Siege, 1836--Fiction.
- Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.).
- Texas--History--Revolution, 1835-1836--Fiction.
- Texas.
- History.
- Sieges--Fiction.
- Sieges.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 579 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin, 2001.
- Summary:
- A full-scale fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo bristles with historical figures, including Jim Bowie, Santa Anna, and Davy Crockett, among others, as it provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
- Notes:
- Picture of the Fort of the Alamo and a view of San Antonio de Bèxar looking east toward the Fort of the Alamo following t.p.
- Originally published as hbk.: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 578-580).
- ISBN:
- 0141000023
- 9780141000022
- OCLC:
- 46438923
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