Remember the Alamo

By Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Book Id: WPLBN0000616862
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.9 MB
Reproduction Date:

Title:	Remember the Alamo
Author:	Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Project Gutenberg Consortia Center
Historic Publication Date:
Publisher:	Project Gutenberg Consortia Center


Citation APA MLA Chicago Edith Huddleston Barr, B. A. (n.d.). Remember the Alamo. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.us/

Excerpt
In A.D. Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-two, a few Franciscan monks began to build a city. The site chosen was a lovely wilderness hundreds of miles away from civilization on every side, and surrounded by savage and warlike tribes. But the spot was as beautiful as the garden of God. It was shielded by picturesque mountains, watered by two rivers, carpeted with flowers innumerable, shaded by noble trees joyful with the notes of a multitude of singing birds. To breathe the balmy atmosphere was to be conscious of some rarer and finer life, and the beauty of the sunny skies?marvelous at dawn and eve with tints of saffron and amethyst and opal?was like a dream of heaven.