The Gates of the Alamo » (Reprint)

Stephen Harrigan, a longtime writer for Texas Monthly and many other magazines, is the author of the novels Aransas and Jacob's Well. His other books include Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef and the essay collections A Natural State and Comanche Midnight. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Meet Edmund McGowan, a naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; Mary Mott, a determined and resourceful widowed innkeeper; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell.

The Washington Post - Ron Franscell

The Alamo is the holiest of texas shrines, a haunted little mission at the crossroads of fact and fiction and, in the gospel of Texas, perhaps a vestige of Creation itself.