The second battle of the Alamo : how two women saved Texas's most famous landmark /

By 1900, the story of the three-hundred Texans who died in the 1836 Battle of the Alamo had already become legend. But to corporate interests in San Antonio, the land was merely desireable acreage across the street from new hotels and restaurants, with only a few crumbling buildings left to tell the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alter, Judy, 1938- (Author)
Other Authors:	Winegarten, Debra L. (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Helena, Montana : TWODOT, [2020]
Subjects:	De Zavala, Adina, > 1861-1955. Driscoll, Clara, > 1861-1944. Historic preservation > Texas. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) > History.

Table of Contents:

Chapter one: Unlikely alliance
Chapter two: Inimitable Adina
Chapter three: Unlikely savior
Chapter four: Back in Texas
Chapter five: Fiction and real romance
Chapter six: Adina's daring stand
Chapter seven: Adina and the ongoing battle
Chapter eight: Clara Driscoll and the limits of philanthropy
Chapter nine: Alamo of the imagination
Chapter ten: Twenty-first century and a third battle of the Alamo
Epilogue: Future of the past.