A STORY OF THE ALAMO
Reading edition
BY
WILLIAM O. STODDARD
AUTHOR OF "CHUMLEY'S POST," "CROWDED OUT O' CROFIELD," "THE TALKING LEAVES," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES H. STEPHENS
PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1898
COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
The Gods of the Montezumas
CHAPTER II.
The Alamo Fort
CHAPTER III.
The Dream of the New Empire
CHAPTER IV.
The Race for the Chaparral
CHAPTER V.
Among the Bushes
CHAPTER VI.
The Old Cash-Box
CHAPTER VII.
The Escape of the Rangers
CHAPTER VIII.
The Camp at the Spring
CHAPTER IX.
The Skirmish in the Night
CHAPTER X.
A Baffled Pursuit
CHAPTER XI.
The Charge of the Lancers
CHAPTER XII.
The Horse-Thieves and the Stampede
CHAPTER XIII.
The Last of Tetzcatl
CHAPTER XIV.
The Perilous Path
CHAPTER XV.
The Return of the Gold Hunters
CHAPTER XVI.
The Army of Santa Anna
CHAPTER XVII.
The First Shot
CHAPTER XVIII.
Crockett's Alarm Gun
CHAPTER XIX.
The Reinforcement
CHAPTER XX.
Nearing the End
ILLUSTRATIONS
"This is a terrible piece of work" . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece.
"Good! Tetzcatl go to the Alamo"
"Heap dollar," remarked Red Wolf
"Ugh!" screeched the Comanche at the end of a terrific minute, and he sank into the grass
In rode the very airy captain of lancers
A dark, stern, terrible shape half rose from a couch