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Celia Hayes's Blog – February 2009 Archive (3)

An Old Mission Church, Half Tumbled Down (Part Two)

That most northern, fractious and rebelliously-inclined of those northern provinces of the nation of Mexico was in ferment in the 1830s, some of which might be chalked up to the presence of settlers who had come to Texas from the various United States looking for land. Texas had plenty of it to go around, and a distinct paucity of residents. Entrepreneurs, such as Stephen Austin's father were allotted a tract of land, based upon how many people they might induce to come and settle on it, to… Continue

Added by Celia Hayes on February 16, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

An Old Mission Church, Half Tumbled Down (Part One)

That is just what it was, when the building which is the premier landmark in San Antonio - and perhaps all of the rest of Texas - first achieved fame immortal, in the short and bloody space of an hour and a half, just before sunrise on a chill spring morning in 1836. People who come to visit today, with an image in their mind from the movies about it - from John Wayne's version, and the more recent 2004 movie, or from sketch-maps in books about the desperate, fourteen-day siege are usually… Continue

Added by Celia Hayes on February 15, 2009 at 7:37am — No Comments

Wild West Monday

So, I belong to a number of different chat-groups about books, and historical novels and Westerns and all ... and at one of them, fans of Westerns are trying to raise interest in that particular genre, by mobilizing other fans, around the world to go into their local library or bookstore and ask for Westerns - any western, new, traditional or somewhere in between. The thinking is, we can achieve a critical mass of fans, and maybe take the book-selling world - if not by the throat, maybe we can… Continue

Added by Celia Hayes on February 12, 2009 at 9:22am — No Comments

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