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The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad is a sieges fictional story written by Joseph Alexander Altsheler, an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. Altsheler's other writings include The Texan Star, The Quest Of The Four, The Scouts Of The Valley, Etc.

Excerpts:

The horseman rode slowly toward the west, stopping once or twice to examine the wide circle of the horizon with eyes that were trained to note every aspect of the wilderness. On his right the plains melted away in gentle swell after swell, until they met the horizon. Their brown surface was broken only by the spiked and thorny cactus and stray bits of chaparral.