Judith Austin Mills
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In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing after the Alamo and Goliad brace for a last clash. Born in Mexico's San Antonio, Captain Juan Seguin risks all in championing the breakaway republic. Private James Trezevant, one of few Georgia Battalion survivors, makes his way toward the attack at San Jacinto. The Harper women scramble for the safety of the American border. Yarico and anyone else identified as a slave stay wary, during...
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A sweeping tale of 19th-century Texas...
When young Shelby Whitmire spies a flatboat coming down the Mississippi to Natchez, he doesn't know that two aboard are on the run to Mexico's Texas territory. How could the motherless boy foresee his adult years unfolding in that wilderness? After fiery speeches in 1835 to convince others to help Texas win independence, it is friendship and heartbreak driving Shelby across the Sabine River and onto perilous...
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As the fight for Texas Independence heats up in the fall of 1835, young volunteers as far away as Macon, Georgia enlist to test their mettle in the brewing struggle. Three women traveling alongside the battalion have hidden reasons for abandoning home. They have never heard of the remote settlement Waterloo-destined to be renamed Austin. None starting out on the 1,000-mile trek envisions a treacherous passage into unrelenting frontier. No one foresees...