Celia Hayes | March 17, 2009
The Mexican soldiers came to march them away from the old citadel on the seventh day after Colonel Fannin had surrendered under a white flag. His little command of volunteers and militia had fought doggedly and hopelessly for a day and a night, pinned down in the open just short of Coleto Creek, tormented beyond [...]
Celia Hayes | March 14, 2009
One of the Amazon discussion threads that I began following a couple of weeks ago started with the plaintive question – is it possible to libel historical characters, especially those who are long-dead? The discussion rambled down some interesting by-ways or at least by-ways of interest to that relative handful of us who construct historical [...]
Celia Hayes | March 11, 2009
The westward movement of Americans rolled west of the Appalachians and hung up for a decade or two on the barrier of the Mississippi-Missouri. It was almost an interior sea-coast, the barrier between the settled lands, and the un-peopled and tree-less desert beyond, populated by wild Indians. To be sure, there were scattered enclaves, as [...]
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