A STORY OF THE ALAMO

BY

WILLIAM O. STODDARD

AUTHOR OF "CHUMLEY'S POST," "CROWDED OUT O' CROFIELD,"
"THE TALKING LEAVES," ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLES H. STEPHENS

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1898

COPYRIGHT, 1897,
BY
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

[ CHAPTER I. ]

The Gods of the Montezumas

[ CHAPTER II. ]

The Alamo Fort

[ CHAPTER III. ]

The Dream of the New Empire

[ CHAPTER IV. ]

The Race for the Chaparral

[ CHAPTER V. ]

Among the Bushes

[ CHAPTER VI. ]

The Old Cash-Box

[ CHAPTER VII. ]

The Escape of the Rangers

[ CHAPTER VIII. ]

The Camp at the Spring

[ CHAPTER IX. ]

The Skirmish in the Night

[ CHAPTER X. ]

A Baffled Pursuit

[ CHAPTER XI. ]

The Charge of the Lancers

[ CHAPTER XII. ]

The Horse-Thieves and the Stampede

[ CHAPTER XIII. ]

The Last of Tetzcatl

[ CHAPTER XIV. ]

The Perilous Path

[ CHAPTER XV. ]

The Return of the Gold Hunters

[ CHAPTER XVI. ]

The Army of Santa Anna

[ CHAPTER XVII. ]

The First Shot

[ CHAPTER XVIII. ]

Crockett's Alarm Gun

[ CHAPTER XIX. ]

The Reinforcement

[ CHAPTER XX. ]

Nearing the End

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ "This is a terrible piece of work" . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece. ]

[ "Good! Tetzcatl go to the Alamo" ]

[ "Heap dollar," remarked Red Wolf ]

[ "Ugh!" screeched the Comanche at the end of a terrific minute, and he sank into the grass ]

[ In rode the very airy captain of lancers ]

[ A dark, stern, terrible shape half rose from a couch ]