Remember the Alamo
Amelia E. Barr
Sachbuch / Regional- und Ländergeschichte
Beschreibung
"For many years there had never been any doubt in the mind of Robert Worth as to the ultimate destiny of Texas, though he was by no means an adventurer, and had come into the beautiful land by a sequence of natural and business-like events. He was born in New York. In that city he studied his profession, and in eighteen hundred and three began its practice in an office near Contoit's Hotel, opposite the City Park. One day he was summoned there to attend a sick man. His patient proved to be Don Jaime Urrea, and the rich Mexican grandee conceived a warm friendship for the young physician..."
Kundenbewertungen
Friendship with Mexican grandee, American frontier, Western romance, Historical fiction, Victorian era, Character-driven narrative, Cultural clash, Mexican-American War, Texas history, New York physician