Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . overlooking the city. Itsextensive buildings of stone, its wide sweep of perfectly level parade-ground, and the high and graceful clock tower which rises from the quad-rangular plaza, make it an interesting place for the visitor. This is the new—now for the old! exclaimed the Colonel. Here 64: THRUUGII sroRVLAND TO SUNSET SEAS. The Alamo andits sacredmemories. Begun as achurch in 1716,occupied as amilitary postin 1718. is the substantial beauty of structure and the suggestiveness o
Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . overlooking the city. Itsextensive buildings of stone, its wide sweep of perfectly level parade-ground, and the high and graceful clock tower which rises from the quad-rangular plaza, make it an interesting place for the visitor. This is the new—now for the old! exclaimed the Colonel. Here 64: THRUUGII sroRVLAND TO SUNSET SEAS. The Alamo andits sacredmemories. Begun as achurch in 1716,occupied as amilitary postin 1718. is the substantial beauty of structure and the suggestiveness of modernpower—the visible sign of a great nation. Now let us go to where a fewold walls make hallowed ground to those who venerate the heroism of menwho could die for a principle. The Alamo ? I asked. The Alamo! the Colonel responded. If deeds of daring sanctifythe soil that witnesses them that should be to every American one of thesacred places of the land. We soon alighted in front of the old church and entered its broad hundred and seventy-nine years have elapsed since its foundations were r. begun. Its early history would be filled with the interest of tradition wereit not for the fact that one glorious deed of sacrifice dwarfs all that wentbefore. Here on March 6, 1S36, one hundred and eighty-one citizen-soldiers, untrained to war, fought more than twenty times their number, andscorning to retreat deliberately chose to die. The fight began February 23d,when the Mexican army under Santa Anna began the assault. The attackwas continued day and night, and each time the Mexican column was hurledback with frightful loss. Each day witnessed supreme examples of heroismon the part of the beleagured men. One of the most inspiring of these wasthe sacrifice of James Butler Bonham, a native of South Carolina, and thefriend of Colonel Travis, who commanded the Alamo forces. He had beensent to Fannin and the government with appeals for aid, which were unavail-ing. On March 2
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