Word: alamo
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...most beautiful I have ever seen. When I saw the Lone Star of Texas on it, when I opened it up and saw it portraying the glory of this state and the city of San Antonio, when I saw the seal and the picture of the Alamo, how could I refuse...
...five Arkansases would, to most of its citizens, be dismembering an empire. No longer could Texas brag of the fact that it grew more cotton (five million bales), produced more oil, than any other State. In such a split-up, North Texas would lose the historic glory of The Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio cruelly
...Boxley was promptly arrested, lodged in the jail at Trenton, a neighboring village. That night several thousand people milled about the jail, beat on its door, demanded Joe. The officials slipped Joe out a back way and carried him to Alamo, put him in the jail there. It was after 3 a. m. Joe lay down in his cell, dozed...
Before dawn, two men entered the home of Sheriff Carl Emison at Alamo and demanded the prisoner. Sheriff Emison hid the jail keys under a divan, tried to outtalk his visitors. A few minutes later the angry Mob arrived. Before they battered down his door, he opened it. They found his keys...
When the sun came up, it fell upon a black thing hanging from a tree four miles from Alamo. There was a scribbled note attached: "To hang here till 4 p. m. Thursday...