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Lone Star Rising ReviewI am one of those many people who read everything related to the Alamo. When I first saw this book I was puzzled as to why I had never heard of it. After reading it I am more puzzled. This is a great book. It has obviously not been promoted. I have no doubt that it will soon grow in popularity as those few of us who stumble across it will be telling our friends about this incredible find.
This book fills an important historical gap: Texas from 1800 to 1836. While many books touch on this period I know of none that focus on it. Three Roads to the Alamo, and various biographies of Austin and Houston certainly touch on pre-Alamo Texas, but none with the historical sweep and detail of this book.
Several examples will give you an idea of what is covered in this book, much of which I learned for the first time. Most knowledgeable readers know that the Louisiana Purchase was basically the transfer of a large chunk of Spanish, not French, land in North America to Jefferson's young nation. But this book shows how that purchase created a great deal of confusion in Texas as the US initially claimed the Louisiana Purchase extended to the Rio Grande. This uncertainty, and the power vacuum left by weakened Royalists in Mexico from 1800 to 1824, accounted for the filibusters, piracy, and tremendous unrest in Texas. These are described in detail along with the other factors that caused the population of Texas to decline, between 1800 and 1824, from 4000 to 2500.
Only after the Mexican Constitution of 1824 was written was there even a legal basis upon which Austin could found his colony. This book does an incredible job of showing how Texians played off the US, Mexico, and Spain. Although Spain failed to reconquer Mexico in 1829, the cost and political stress of that war had a profound impact on Texas as the federalist Mexican constitution of 1824 was slowly replaced by a new centrism headed by the former hero of federalism, Santa Anna.
The book also provided me an in depth feel for the changing relationship between Texians and Tejanos. Tejanos wanted freedom as much as the Texians but they were much more fearful of reprisal from Mexico. Tejanos regarded the conventions held by Texians as being illegal and almost treasonous, so they voiced the exact same complaints about wanting Texas to become a state, but they did them through resolutions passed at City Council meetings. The love hate-relationship of Texians and Tejanos with their legislature in the Capital at Saltillo, and the political divisions in Coahuila is absolutely fascinating
If you read Alamo books in order to get the same feeling we have when we see reruns of Alamo movies every week on cable TV, this book is not for you. It does not focus of heroism. This is much more about history than personality. Much to my relief this was not a politically correct book about evil Anglo racists. Bowie and Travis, in the context of the facts presented, are seen as somewhat immature and self-centered individuals who quickly matured and rose to the challenge of their times. Houston is seen as a late entrant in the Texas saga. Austin is the big winner in this version of Texas history as he is shown to be the one indispensable man around whom all Texians followed and respected from 1824 to 1835.
If you love reading history books that introduce you to new facts and ideas, you won't put this book down. I didn't. By putting the Alamo in the context of the times, this book will make you appreciate even more the courage of those who stood for freedom.Lone Star Rising Overview

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