Waxahachie, TX: McLennan House, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the intertwined lives of four men - frontier hero Davey Crockett, knife figher Jim Bowie, Mexican General Santa Anna and the Anglo colonist commander in the Alamo, William Barrett Travis - and culminating in the battle at the Alamo on March 6, 1836, were General Antonio Lopes de Santa Anna, in command of some 5000 soldiers, has bottled up a hundred-odd Yankee rebels in the old Alamo Mission. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-918865093.