| | 1 | Author: | Barr, Amelia E. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Remember the Alamo  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In A. D. sixteen hundred and ninety-two, a few Franciscan
monks began to build a city. The site chosen was a lovely
wilderness hundreds of miles away from civilization on every
side, and surrounded by savage and warlike tribes. But the
spot was as beautiful as the garden of God. It was shielded
by picturesque mountains, watered by two rivers, carpeted with
flowers innumerable,
shaded by noble trees joyful with the notes of a multitude of
singing birds. To breathe the balmy atmosphere was to be
conscious of some rarer and finer life, and the beauty of the
sunny skies—marvellous at dawn and eve with tints of saffron
and amethyst and opal—was like a dream of heaven. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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