13 DAYS TO GLORY – Novel by Lon Tinkle

He was born on March day, in Dallas. His career as a writer and teacher spanned fifty-four years, beginning in 1942. He is best known for his books (especially those which focused on younger readers), as Thirteen Days to Glory /The Siege of the Alamo, The Cowboy Reader and The Key to Dallas. He was a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas, and received many honors in his life Julien Lon Tinkle married Maria Ofelia Garza in 1939, and they made their home in Dallas (they had three sons). He died in Dallas on January day, in 1980.

The novel includes a chronology of events (from June 30, 1835, when William Barret Travis, under a secret pact with Anglo leaders at San Felipe de Austin, drove out the new Mexican garrison opposite Galveston, to February 23, 1836, when the thirteen-day siege of the Alamo began). In thirteen chapters, 13 Days to Glory tells the story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won for their cause an almost unparalleled measure of fame. The familiar figures appear on these pages (stern young Colonel William Barret Travis; the middle-aged fighter Jim Bowie, who contested the young upstart’s comand; famous frontiersman Davy Crockett, soon to have his stock in legend rise even higher). The volleys fired by the Alamo defenders were aimed at the large and well-outfitted army of Santa Anna (self-styled Napoleon of the West). As the days of the siege are described, the author cinematically flashes back to pivotal points of destiny—the circumstance that led each person to be inside the walls of the abandoned mission late in the winter of 1836. https://www.amazon.com/13-Days-Glory-Southwest-Landmarks/dp/0890967075