The Alamo

The Alamo

Author: Michael Burgan

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1438128126

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Discusses how in 1836, a small group of defenders at the Alamo fought to the death against thousands of Mexican soldiers during the Texas Revolution.


Greetings from San Antonio

Greetings from San Antonio

Author: Lewis F. Fisher

Publisher: Trinity University Press

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1595349197

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Greetings from San Antonio: Historic Postcards of the Alamo City is a collection of more than six hundred color and black-and-white photo postcards, many of them quite rare, that yield a compelling visual narrative of the city in the early twentieth century, when postcards were at their height of popularity. Presented unaltered and accompanied by concise descriptive text, the postcards provide a distinctive visual portrait of a captivating and unique city during the early years of its transformation into the multicultural mecca it is today.