Details the lives of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis, and the Alamo.

Covers an area anywhere from Fort Worth to the New Mexico border. The stories in this volume are reproduced as they appeared in the morning issues of the Fort Worth Star Telegram series.

An introduction to the life and career of Stephen F. Austin, the little-known empresario who initially brought colonists to the state of Texas, dealt with the Mexican government to clarify matters that threatened the survival of Americans in Texas, and braved harsh elements to maintain the American presence in Texas.

Fidelia McCord has become the only surviving child of John and Mariah McCord of Pond Springs. After having borne great loss and hardship in mid-nineteenth century Texas - where moments of jubilation and jeopardy carry a girl to womanhood - Fidelia knows the weight of her choices. At the same time, far away in North Carolina, the Maloney brothers, cooking mash into whiskey in the Appalachian mountains, are making their own life-changing decisions,...

In 1847, the McCord family, filled with hope for prospects of a better life, packed all their earthly belongings into covered wagons and left their homes in Indiana for Texas. The world beyond was in front of seven-year-old Fidelia, and little did she know, as the wagons traveled down the dusty trail to the southwest, that there would be the need for all the courage she could muster. Her faith would be tested and fortitude found in the most unexpected...