I read I Remember The Alamo by D. Anne Love. This book was about an eleven year old girl named Jessie. In the beginning of the book, Jessie's dad announces that he wants to move to Texas. The next day, they are on their way. When her family arrives, Jessie becomes friends with a Mexican girl named Angelina. However, they have to meet secretly due to the war between the Mexicans and Texians that is about to begin. One day,Jessie's father and old brother announce they are going to fight for Texas. While gone, the rest of the family hides in the safe Alamo. Suddenly, the family gets some shocking news, however, Angelina knows the truth! What happens next? I won't tell, you'll just have to read it.

I liked how the book was very exciting and really grabbed me into it. Especially towards the end of the story. I recomend this book to people who like to laugh, and yet learn. D. Anne Love definitly knows how to write great childrens books.

This book taught me a lot about friendship. It shows that no matter who you are, you can have a friend from a different culture.After all, the hand of friendship has no color. This book also shows that war doesn't solve problems. When you think about it today, you know it was wrong because a bunch of people from different races live in Texas. I would consider this book my favorite, not only because it is great, but how it has a moral too!

What an awesome story! I loved this book. It is a historical fiction book full of drama and suspense and very well written. I cried at least three times while reading this book. When I first picked it out, I wondered how good it would be, since I knew the outcome of the story, but Love kept my attention the whole way through. I highly recommend this book to children (or adults) who enjoy Texas History or is taking Texas History. It gives a very personal look into the lives of people who suffered for the rights and freedom that Texans now hold. A FIVE STAR BOOK!

One of those books that are hard to forget and a love story that is easy to believe. Elaine Coffman became one of my favorite authors with this beautiful novel. I am an avid fan of Judith Mcnaught, Jude Deveraux and Johanna Lindsey and I added Coffman to my list because of this book.

I thought this was a wonderful book, I have read 3 of Coffman's books, and this is by far the best. It was one of those feel good books!!!

This is a charming book with beautiful illustrations. It is a story of the childhood of Miss Ima Hogg, a beloved Texas philanthropist. This book will appeal to all children of reading age, and their parents. I look forward to more books from Margaret Mc Manis, who is sure to become a favorite children's author.

Many children have heard funny stories about Ima and Ura Hogg.
This is the real story of Ima Hogg, a young girl growing up in Texas with her three brothers in the late 1800s. Ura is not real. Ima, the daughter of a Texas govenor, was an important leader in early Texas, contributing time and funds to the arts, science, and historic preservation. The historic Varner-Hogg plantation is located in West Columbia Tx just a few minutes from my home.

An amazing overview of the early years of Austin Texas' ascension as a thriving American music centre that joined rednecks and hippies together into a communal musical mishmash that revitalized country music for the better, and sowed the seeds for today's No Depression alternative-country scene. Joyfully poignant stories on early luminaries like Kenneth Threadgill, the fateful establishment of Armadillo World Headquarters, and Willie Nelson's eternal stamp on Austin as the in-house musical Jesus. Many fascinating profiles on people like Michael Murphey, Kinky Friedman, and other important artists either ignored or forgotten. The story is told with wry wit and a gripping style that paints a loud, colourful, wonderfully dusty picture of Austin's cosmic cowboy scene of 1973-74. A must for archivists and historians, a good read for the curious country fan, and an all-around amazing piece of music journalism that reads more like Hunter Thompson than Ian Tyson.

Jan Reid's fascinating account of the rise of the "Outlaw Country" scene of the 1970's will more than hold the interest of folks who were into the Austin scene of the time, as well as those who have only recently discovered some of the singer-songwriters from that period via covers of their work by Lyle Lovett and other artists.

Reid's book explains why Austin has long been an island of culture and tolerance in Texas, and how that atmosphere set the stage for a burgeoning music scene. He chronicles the rise of artists who went on to varying degrees of mainstream success, such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Michael Martin Murphey, and Jerry Jeff Walker. He also tells the story of artists who once seemed on the precipice of stardom, only to fade into relative obscurity as the sun set on the era of "redneck rock": Willis Alan Ramsey, Steve Fromholz, Rusty Wier, Bobby Bridger, B.W. Stevenson, and Kinky Friedman (who reached a level of success as a novelist which surpassed that of his music career).

This is a readable, enjoyable book. Well worth a look.

This book is a must for geneoligist serching for ancestors in Texas. Not only does it give account of the once thriving city of matagorda bay. But the transportation availability to include the Trains and shipping lines. This book gives all references to the texas train lines of the times and can give you an idea of what route early ancestors may have traveled. The book itself is a accurate account of the early days of german imigration, Indianola itself and the people who made it all happen. I found the book to very interesting and attention grabbing.

Very few local histories interweave all events in a city's history...both the good and the bad. However, this book does it, and very well. The reader gets to see the city through the inhabitant's eyes, and experience the growth of one of Texas' most influential cities of the 19th century. From the very beginning, you see how this coastal city is a slave to the elements. Several storms are endured, before the town disappears from the landscape. You get to see how it interacted with its arch rival, Galveston, along with its coexistence with many of the smaller towns in its vicinity. And you get to see how this city lived and died by the railroad. If you thought Indianola was always a Texas state park, this book will open your eyes. If you're interested in hurricanes, this book shows how ravaging storms were before current, strict housing codes were inacted, and before seawalls protected all coastal cities. For the Texas historian, this book is a must. It is a complete history of the 43 years of Indianola, and its haunting legacy. For residents of San Antonio and Victoria, it gives them a chance to discover what the city of many of their forefathers was really like.

Well-written, fast paced action biographical novel.
Would make a different kind of Western movie.
Reads quickly.
Well researched.

Jane Long of Texas is a must for those who love biographical history. Jane Long was an important American pioneer and her story is captivating. This book is an exciting version of the founding of Texas from the perspective of a strong and fearless woman. Learn factual history and enjoy a good read filled with culture, adventure, war, politics, betrayal, passion, love and tradgedy.

As we began the novel several students commented, "I don't understand this book." This is frequently a sign that we are going to get some fine work done! Sociology ought to be of some use for understanding the unexpected--and Harrell Clark has woven an intricate portrait of everyday life. We were much aided by the presence of a student from central Texas who asserted to the Minnesotans that these were familiar lives. The class eventually arrived at several key insights. "Where you grow up has to do with who you are." "Behavior alters behavior." And most helpful for our journey: "Two people witness an event, explain it completely and very differently."

Keepers of the Earth is the story of a Texas community, its local black conjurer and land-owning white family brought to confusion by oil-money greed, resurgent familial feelings and jealousy. The author leads readers throught the rituals of Uncle Cefus' "great hand" in reuniting the murdered coachwhip snakes with their rightful homeland, and in the process leads us to believe that doing right by others may do more for luck and success than any amount of hard work. Not only is the novel poetic, but passionate, clearly exhibiting the author's love of folklore. The ficticious account is equally instructive in the lost art of conjuring (which slipped away in the 1960's). An enjoyable and fun book to read.

This may not be a topic for your Victorian grandmother, but anyone who says this isn't a good book has an agenda. Cezanne Martin is a fascinating character with a troubled past, who finally achieves her goal to become a prosecutor. Instead of bailing out of the police department in favor of a job at the DA's Office, she sticks around in a selfless effort try to clear her police partner when he's accused of murder. Very nice twists. Would also recommend Moore's other book, CONSTABLE'S RUN, which is a good-time read from start to finish.

Laurie Moore is giving Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich a run for their money! Cezanne' is a great character with a riveting back story. I cannot wait until the next book in the series is out.

Do not let the stale title fool you here. Foley employs some wonderful ethnographic, qualitative research methods in this piece of work. Foley disobeys the old, archaic rules of the social sciences, in that he leaves his objectivitiy behind and immerses himself into the city of North Town (a mythical name). Texas is much more than Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The author shows us another side of the state. Foley focuses on the South Texas region and its much too often ignored Mexican American population. Many people do not realize the old, colonized treatment that Mexican Americans are still subjugated to and Foley makes a point of writing about this in his text. In addition to being an ethnographic account of the socially inequities that exist between the dominant Anglo population and the subordinate Mexican American population in North Town, this book is also an analysis and critique of an educational system. Foley demonstrates how the educational system in North Town perpetuates inequality and tracks its young people to take their assigned role in society according to their socioeconomic status and their ethnic background. Learning Capitalist Culture is a book for those not only interested in the social sciences, but those of us interested in research techniques and methodological approaches that are new, exciting, and part of a new kind of social science model.

Doug Foley wrote a very food account of a small town in this book. It is an ethnographic, and fuliflls that part. Mostyl the book discusess the race relation of the poor town, and delves into the politics that make such a racial divide possible. I highly recommend it!