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Book Review of The Gates of the Alamo

The Gates of the Alamo
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This book was a New York Times Bestseller. It is an engrossing novel of the fight for and fall of the Alamo in 1836. It follows the lives
of three people whose lives become bound together at the fort. Edmund
McGowan, a gifted naturalist, the resourceful innkeeper Mary Mott and
her sixteen-year old son, Terrell. Other people featured in the novel
are James Bowie, David Crockett. William Travis and Santa Anna.