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Before the Alamo, a Tejana's Story
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Category:  Historical Fiction
Publisher: Maywood House

ISBN-10:  1737418290

Type: Fiction

Pages: 279

Copyright: 
September 17, 2021
ISBN-13: 9781737418290

Price: $5.99 (eBook)


Emilia Altamirano, illegitimate daughter of a Royalist officer and an Otomi Indian mother, rejected by her father, becomes a ward of Jose Antonio Navarro. She nurses the wounded at the Alamo Battle and survives to face an uncertain future.

Emilia Altamirano, half Otomí Indian, half pure Spanish, is born in 1814, the year after the Battle of the Medina River, where her father fought as an officer in the Mexican Royalist Army. She grows up in Bexar de San Antonio unacknowledged by her father, raised by her Otomí Indian mother, and “adopted” as an unofficial ward by José Antonio Navarro, hero of the Texas fight for independence from Mexico. She learns to read, write, and acts as a page for the Ayuntamiento (City Council). She learns nursing during a cholera epidemic and later tends the wounded on both sides during and after the Battle of the Alamo. She survives, but as a Tejana, Spanish-speaking, and a loyal citizen of Mexico, she faces an uncertain future.



     I have read the book, and it is not to be missed! Most novels based on history deal with famous participants and readers never get to know how the average people felt or dealt with situations at the time. In this book, after much study, the author gets into to heads of ordinary people, and they turn out to be anything but ordinary and just as brave or braver than the so-called well known heroes.



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I have read the book, and it is not to be missed! Most novels based on history deal with famous participants and readers never get to know how the average people felt or dealt with situations at the time. In this book, after much study, the author gets into to heads of ordinary people, and they turn out to be anything but ordinary and just as brave or braver than the so-called well known heroes.


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